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5 Ιουν 2014 · Summary. I think that if we don’t consider a distinction in our use of the word standard and standardization we are very likely to get into trouble … outsiders will have reason to assert that what we are attempting to do is to muzzle all possible development.
The Bell System is, therefore, a product of evolution as well as innovation. To see how the structure bas grown so that all units combine their efforts for the common goal of service, this survey of Western Electric and the Bell System opens with a history and description of AT&T. After this review of the parent company, Bell Laboratories
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.
In an effort to strengthen investor confidence, management set the annual dividend at $9 in 1921. But it was not easy to maintain this standard. The Bell System had a 46% debt ratio, and its costs were climbing faster than its revenues.
Bell System. The key figure in this history is Bancroft Gherardi, who was AT&T’s Vice President and Chief Engineer from 1920 to 1938. It examines Gherardi’s role in the production of standards for use inside the Bell System, as well as standards that were necessary for technologies that spanned the boundaries of the Bell System. In both cases,
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 ...
The extensive volume, A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: The Early Years (1875-1925), ed. M. D. Fagen (Warren, N.J., 1975), is a reliable source of detailed information on many of Bell's early engineering developments and is recommended as an introduction to early telephone technology. Studies which address the general ques-
