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6 unusual facts about Bell Telephone Company


American Bell

Bell Telephone Company, at one time known as American Bell Telephone Company, original parent of American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Arthur Porges

James Porges worked at the Bell Telephone Company in Chicago, and had four sons: Leonard, Irwin, Arthur, and Walter.

Bell Telephone Company

At each end of the memorial there are two female figures mounted on granite pedestals representing Humanity, one sending and the other receiving a message.

Of the Bell Company's original shareholders, Thomas Watson resigned his position in 1881 with his shares bringing him up to the status of a millionaire, thereafter living a colourful life as a Shakespearean actor and later as a shipyard owner and ship builder—always retaining his friendship with Bell.

Chevrolet Greenbrier

These were used by the Bell Telephone Company, because loading and unloading of cable drums was eased by the side ramp.

Thomas Sanders

See Bell Telephone Company for Thomas Sanders (U.S. businessman), Alexander Graham Bell's first sponsor and partner in Cambridge/Boston, and the father of one of Bell's students



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John Elbridge Hudson

In 1878 the firm dissolved, and he became counsel for the American Bell Telephone Company in 1880, later known as AT&T.

Joseph-Rosaire Thibaudeau

Thibaudeau was a member of the first Board of directors, Bell Telephone Company of Canada (Bell Canada)in 1880, and Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited (Nortel).