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Encyclopedia > Bell Telephone Company

Bell Telephone Company can refer to:

The Bell System, a name and trademark formerly given to AT&T.
Bell Canada
Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a former company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel
The original Bell Telephone Company was founded in 1878 by Alexander Graham Bell's father in law Gardiner Greene Hubbard who also helped organized a sister company the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The two companies merged in 1879 to form the National Bell Telephone Company which in 1880 merged with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company which became the American Telephone and Telegraph Company which became AT&T.

This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Category: Disambiguation The Bell System was a trademark and service mark used by the US telecommunications company American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its affiliated companies to co-brand their extensive circuit-switched telephone network and their affiliations with each other. ... AT&T Inc. ... Bell Canada Enterprises TSX: BCE, legally BCE Inc. ... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp) in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to several triptychs by Baroque painter Rubens. ... Alcatel SA is a global company, headquartered in France that provides hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 â€“ August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was the first company set up to develop the then-new telephone. ... AT&T Inc. ...

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Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Alexander Graham Bell (432 words)
	Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
	Telephone poles began to dot the landscape; the state of Vermont lost 45,000 pine trees in 1885 alone.
	Bell's most optimistic project was the photophone, a method of sending sound through the medium of sunlight.

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