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History. Logo used from 1889 to 1900. In 1877, the American Bell Telephone Company, named after Alexander Graham Bell, opened the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. Within a few years local exchange companies were established in every major city in the United States.
The Bell System, known for providing high quality equipment and top-notch service to the customer, came to an end in 1984. With a few exceptions (like BellSouth), most of today’s Baby Bells have not kept the “Spirit of Service” as part of their company’s culture.
The Bell System’s history stretches back to 1876, with founder Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. Bell, Thomas Sanders and Gardiner G. Hubbard formed The Bell Patent Association in order to capitalize on the invention.
Bell System, a former American telephone system, governed by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation; q.v.) and including Western Electric Company (q.v.), the system’s manufacturer; Bell Laboratories (q.v.), the research and development facility; and other departments and 22.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This lesson discusses the history of the Bell System, focusing primarily on the growth of the company founded by Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone), including the spread of the telephone and its importance in society; the dominance of the Bell System and its resultant wealth; and, finally, the 1984 federally mandated breakup ...
Bell System was known for providing the highest-quality telephone parts in the United States, but that ended in 1984. The telephone components were then manufactured by foreign companies for Western Electric , a leading telephone company.
So far, this history has traced the Bell System from its beginnings in the pre-telephone days to its emergence in 1920 in approximately the form it maintains today. In the rest of this history, the Bell System's development corresponds very closely with that of the United States.
