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• Over the course of twenty years, the Bell Company fought over 600 lawsuits and won all of them, effectively becoming a monopoly for the 20-year duration of Bell’s patents. By the turn of the century, Bell Telephone Co. had morphed into A T & T, standing for American Telephone & Telegraph. • By 1894, Bell’s patents had expired, opening the industry to competition. Within a decade, over 6,000 companies went into business across the country. But subscribers to different telephone companies could not call each other. This situation took 20 years to fix. • In 1892 a long distance line connecting New York to Chicago was completed, able to handle a single call at a time. The price was $9 for the first five minutes, equal to $226 today. • The first transcontinental call took place in January 1915 when Bell in New York called Watson in San Francisco. The call took 23 minutes to get through. Intercontinental service began in 1927 between New York and London with callers being charged $75 ($980 in today’s currency) for the first three minutes.

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• The origin of the phrase ‘to put someone on hold’ was originated by Alexander Graham Bell handing over his telephone to his partner Mr. Watson and saying, “Here, hold this.” • The soundproof booth was invented by Mr. Watson to stop his landlady from eavesdropping. The first prototype built in 1877 used blankets wrapped around a box. • The oldest existing phone book dates from 1878. It’s 20 pages long and contains the names of 391 subscribers in New Haven but not their phone numbers. To contact somebody you had to ring the operator and ask the operator to put you through. Christie’s auctioned the book in 2008 for $170,500. (Cont'd next page) What dance was popular in 1776? Indepen-dance

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We have Veterans day to honor those that serve our country. We have freedom everyday in the United States of America because we have had and still have those that serve in the military. Without the freedom of the people, we may not have phones available as they are not available in some countries. Oh yes, you can get a satellite phone that could be used, but not what we have. The history of the U.S. military dates to 1775, even before the Declaration of Independence marked the establishment of the United States. The Continental Army, Continental Navy, and Continental Marines were created in close succession by the Second Continental Congress in order to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War. For nearly two generations, no American has been obligated to join up, and few do. Less than 0.5 percent of the population serves in the armed forces, compared with more than 12 percent during World War II. So this fourth of July, consider how lucky we are for our independence of not being ruled by another country. Use your phone and call a veteran and thank them for keeping us safe at home with all our freedoms.

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• The concept of assigning telephone numbers to individual phone lines was invented by a doctor. When a fever epidemic hit a small town in Massachusetts in 1879, the local doctor realized that relying on their local telephone operators was risky-- what if they all fell sick at once? Their replacements wouldn’t know the names of the townsfolk or how to direct emergency calls. The doctor came up with a solution: replace names with numbers, allowing the operator to connect without needing to know the exact name. • Almon Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City who suspected he was losing business to a rival. The rival’s wife worked as a switchboard operator and he thought she was diverting calls to her husband. One morning in 1886 his suspicions were confirmed as he read in the newspaper that his close friend had passed away and been buried by this rival. This was his incentive to replace human operators with an automatic switchboard. The Strowger Automatic Telephone System became known as the “girl-less, cuss-less, out-of-order-less, wait-less telephone.” • Phone companies were focusing on urban areas first, so in 1902, a group of Montana farmers decided to build their own phone network. Farmers discovered that if you hooked phone sets to the wires of the barbed wire fences that separated the farms, calls could be made. Thus was born the first distributed “party line.” • Willy Müller invented the automatic answering machine in 1935. It was a three-foot-tall machine popular with Orthodox Jews who were forbidden to answer the phone on the Sabbath. • On November 18, 1963, the push-button telephone was officially introduced by Bell Systems in the USA. Originally push-button dials had only 10 buttons. The # and * buttons were added in 1968.

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