What Happened to America's oldest Telephone Network? (History of the Telephone) - IT'S HISTORY

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From the Telegraph’s ashes arises its successor; the Telephone. Starting as a modification to the harmonic telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell’s magnum opus changed communication forever. Sparking an entire industry that connected nations worldwide, monopolies rose and fell, government regulations shifted, all while interconnection expanded.

Chapters:
0:00 - Successor to the Telegraph - The Telephone
0:46 - A Lock for your Locks - Keeps
2:27 - The Beginnings of Instant Communication - The Telegraph
4:56 - Bell’s First Creations - The Telephone’s Predecessors
7:04 - “Mr. Watson, I Wish to Speak With You” - Birth of the Telephone
10:35 - The New Monopoly - Rise of AT&T
13:31 - The Kingsbury Commitment - The Regulated Monopoly
14:03 - Nationalization Experiments - AT&T and the FCC
16:59 - Losing the Iron Grip - AT&T’s Anti-Trust Struggles
21:54 - Broadening the Spectrum - The Telephone Industry Today

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IT’S HISTORY - Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.

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https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/150-years/back-1870-1940/
https://www.britannica.com/technology/telephone
https://www.nationalitpa.com/history-of-telephone
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-telephone-alexander-graham-bell-1991380
https://telsoc.org/sites/default/files/tja/pdf/108-967-1-pb.pdf

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