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6 Ιαν 2010 · Louis Galambos. Chapter. Get access. Summary. The forces that would break apart the mighty Bell System within fifteen years were already visible in 1970 to those who cared to look. No one, however, could have known how these forces would interact to produce AT&T's divestiture on January 1, 1984. Action could be seen, reaction only imagined.
Here's a summary of each episode. Don't miss any of them: 1.1. The Trigger Effect. Man's dependence. on complex technologies, the New York City power blackout of 1965, and its beginning on the Nile River. 2. Death in the Morning. Precious. metals, magnetism, atomic energy and the effect of Hiroshima, 1945. 3. Distant Voices.
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
6 Ιαν 2010 · The Bell System of 1971 was distinguished not only by its size and the problems it faced, but also by the unique relationships it had established over almost a century of dealing with state and federal governments. (For AT&T's size, see Table 3.)
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 ...
Thus early in 1881, General Stager, Western Electric president, and Theodore N. Vail, at that time general manager of the American Bell Telephone Company, explored the possibility of Western Electric becoming the manufacturing unit of the Bell System.
In this book, Kenneth W. Thompson traces the principles supported by these and other political realists and applies them to funda- mental problems in world politics and foreign policy.
