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One of their best customers was the giant Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1881, after Western Union became a partner in the Gray and Barton Co, the latter was reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Company that was later licensed under the Bell telephone patents to manufacture telephone equipment for AT&T.
The objector (or plaintiff) in the Supreme Court case was initially the Western Union telegraph company, which was then a far-larger and better financed competitor than American Bell Telephone. Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Philip Reis in a bid to invalidate ...
Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
Only three years earlier, Western Union had turned down Gardiner Hubbard's offer to sell it all rights to the telephone for US$100,000 (approximately $3.16 million in current dollars [31]). In only a few years, Western Union's president would acknowledge that it was a serious business error, one that later nearly led to his company being ...
The Teletype Corporation continued in this manner until January 8, 1982, the date of settlement of United States v. AT&T, a 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. At that time, Western Electric was fully absorbed into AT&T as AT&T Technologies, and the Teletype Corporation became AT&T Teletype. The last vestiges ...
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing, 1876 The master telephone patent, 174465, granted to Bell, March 7, 1876. According to Gray's account, his patent caveat was taken to the US patent office a few hours before Bell's application, shortly after the patent office opened, and remained near the bottom of the in-basket until that ...
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14 June 1878: The Telephone Company (Bell's Patents) Ltd. is registered in London. Opened in London on 21 August 1879, it is Europe's first telephone exchange, followed a couple of weeks later by one in Manchester. [14] 12 September 1878: the Bell Telephone Company sues Western Union for infringing Bell's patents.