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The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877–1920
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
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1 This dissertation was completed in 1986 at (he Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Louis Galambos.
2 Ormes was an agent of the Bell Telephone Company, the association that held Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents and the predecessor of AT&T. Southern Bell was one of a number of regional operating companies, eventually owned by AT&T, that were responsible for local and regional telecommunications; long distance communications were handled by AT&T.Google Scholar
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