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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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therto achieved by the telegraph. Accounts of Bells demonstrations at the Centennial, and ofthe independent tests of the telephone by the judges, whichfollowed, soon appeared in leading scientific magazines andattracted widespread attention. From all over the country in-quiries began to arrive as to how licenses, under the Bellpatents, might be obtained to develop the telephone commer-cially. Such licenses were issued to individuals or groups ofindividuals to provide telephone service—which at first in-volved no exchanges, but consisted merely of the leasing ofpairs of telephones—in specific localities or territories. Givenimpetus, in other words, by the publication of what had oc-curred at the exposition in Philadelphia, the telephone movedout of the laboratory into the business office. The commercialdevelopment of Bells invention began. The foundations ofthe organization which is largely responsible for the provisionof nation-wide telephone service in America today were laid 150
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