In 1879 Gardiner Hubbard, father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell and the first president of the
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The Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) was founded on 26 April 1882 as the principal manufacturing business to assist International Bell with its growth throughout Europe, where many countries h… See more

The first telephone exchanges in Belgium were opened in 1878. A company was formed in Brussels in 1879, and others followed. Competition was recognised as unsatisfactory, and the various companies were encou… See more

At the very close of 1899, the American Bell Telephone Company was acquired, for business purposes, by its own subsidiary, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), which then became the head of th… See more

• Bell Telephone Company
• Victorian Internet, describing advances in telecommunications during the 19th century, and their effects on society
• Mundaneum, a precursor to the Internet organized i… See more