The company was so big ... And he literally wrote the book on American telephone history. - [Richard R. John] The Bell System itself, the concept, was popularized by Bell public relation agents ...

The autocratic Bell Telephone Company has cut off the line of the Western Minnesota Telephone Company and Hutchinson businessmen are able to only talk as far as Carver County.

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We explore the history of Bell Labs - now known as Bell Works - the modernist Eero Saarinen-designed facility in New Jersey, ...

This story was originally published in January 2024 and has been updated with additional information ... employees of Bell Labs talk about their time working at the research company’s historic ...