1914 Telephone Exchange Map

What the Telephone Map Shows Modern Mechanix reproduces a 1914 AT&T advertisement showing a map of telephone exchanges in the United States. The accompanying text pumps AT&T’s agreement to connect all telephone subscribers “regardless of who owns the exchanges” and notes that the incipient monopoly only owned a minority of the exchanges.

Posted on Monday, June 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Categories: Communications

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