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The first telephone pager system was patented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross. One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area. Physicians paid US$12 per month for the service and carried a 200-gram (7 oz) pager that would receive phone messages within 40 kilometres (25 mi) of a single ...
Bell Laboratories Building. / 40.73667°N 74.00972°W / 40.73667; -74.00972. 463 West Street is a 13-building complex located on the block between West Street, Washington Street, Bank Street, and Bethune Street in Manhattan, New York. It was originally the home of Bell Telephone Laboratories between 1898 and 1966.
30 October 1891: The independent Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company is formed. 3 May 1892: Thomas Edison awarded patents for the carbon microphone based on applications lodged in 1877. 18 October 1892: Opening of telephone service between New York and Chicago (950 miles).
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 system of competitors.
On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs. [4] [5] Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone ) in 1973 and led the team that re-developed it and brought it to ...
New York telephone exchange in the 1880s, with both men and women as operators Paris telephone exchange, 1900 History Telephone operators in Stockholm, Sweden 1902–1903. In January 1878 George Willard Croy became the world's first telephone operator when he started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch company.
Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone. [3]
The New Haven District Telephone Company grew quickly and was reorganized several times in its first years. By 1880, the company had the right from the Bell Telephone Company to service all of Connecticut and western Massachusetts. As it expanded, the company was first renamed Connecticut Telephone, and then Southern New England Telephone in 1882.