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The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up and replaced by a ...
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was once the regional Bell Operating Company serving the states of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina prior to the breakup of AT&T. It also covered the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee until 1968 when those were split off to form South Central Bell .
1882: A telephone company—an American Bell Telephone Company affiliate—is set up in Mexico City. 14 May 1883: The Adelaide exchange was opened, with 48 subscribers. 7 September 1883: The Port Adelaide exchange was opened, with 21 subscribers. 4 September 1884: Opening of telephone service between New York and Boston (235 miles).
I am a telephone Junkie; I am a collector; I have discovered that all over America there are small Telephone museums. I have dragged Karen to a few of them including this one in Atlanta, When we walked into this one, there was an old car as part of the display, seems it was roped in, saying do not touch, the lady who showed us around was a sweet heart, Karen sat in the car & said its worth ...
on display along with one of every kind of telephone ever made. Small display of Cherokee Indian lore, and lots of neat cars. But it is the technology of communication through the 20th century that just shows how far we have come: From Alexander Graham Bell's and other early inventions to a solar panel.
The museum is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday 10am – 4pm. 438 West Oglethorpe Hwy., Hinesville, GA 31313 Phone: 912-408-4872. Read more. Written June 25, 2016. This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
BellSouth Telecommunications was formed in 1983 as SBT&T Co. Incorporated in Georgia in 1983, it replaced the original Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company that was incorporated in New York in 1879. SBT&T Co. and Southern Bell merged on December 31, 1983, and the merged company took the Southern Bell name.
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.