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3 days ago · AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [24]
4 days ago · Bell was aided in his efforts by machinist Thomas Watson, and his work was funded by Thomas Sanders and Gardiner Hubbard, men with deaf children instructed by Bell (Sanders alone invested more than $100,000 in Bell’s inventing efforts, almost $3 million in 2024 dollars). 1 The four cofounders incorporated the Bell Telephone Company in 1877 ...
3 days ago · Bell Telephone Company, the first telephone company, was formed a year later. It later became a part of the American Bell Telephone Company. In 1884, the American Bell Telephone Company created the Mechanical Department from the Electrical and Patent Department formed a year earlier.
5 days ago · • 1874: Alexander Graham Bell figures out the basics of how a telephone should be able to work. • 1876: Bell receives a patent for the first telephone. • 1877: Bell founds Bell Telephone and travels across the country promoting his invention.
4 days ago · Includes items relating to Bell's involvement in the first telephone company, patent disputes and early marketing of the telephone.
4 days ago · On January 25th, 1915, Alexander Graham Bell made the call from his office on 15 Dey Street in the Financial District of Manhattan to his assistant Thomas Agustus Watson in San Francisco.
5 days ago · The ensuing legal battle between Western Union and the Bell Telephone Company over patent rights ended in 1879 with Western Union withdrawing from the telephone market and Bell acquiring Western Electric in 1881.
