In 1984, Western Electric was absorbed into AT&T as part of divestiture. In 1996, the hardware group of AT&T was spun off into its own company - Lucent Technologies.
The first installation of the Western Electric developed #1Crossbar was in 1938 at the Troy Avenue central office in Brooklyn, NY. Western Electric (aka the Bell System) obtained licenses from E...
The first Panel switch was installed in the early 1920's in Omaha, Nebraska and others were installed throughout the 20's and 30's in most metropolitan areas in the USA (except for Los Angeles, whi...
The Bell System eventually began to manufacture Step-by-Step switches. However, their first installation of a Step-by-Step switch was NOT made by Western Electric, but by Automatic Electric! This f...
In 1901, the Strowger Company licensed the technology to the Automatic Electric Company. In 1908, the two companies merged and took the latter name.
Strowger founded the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company in 1892.
The Step by Step switching system was invented in 1888 and patented in 1891 by Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, MO USA.
On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone with the famous saying to Thomas Watson of "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!".
By 1861 there were over 50,000 Miles of Telegraph Lines and 2250 Telegraph Offices in the US.
Morse built his first telegraph line - 40 miles between Washington and Baltimore using "Morse Code".
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