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4 unusual facts about Syracuse Telephonic Exchange


Syracuse Telephonic Exchange

In 1997, the Bell system consolidated again into five companies and NYNEX became part of the Bell Atlantic system which eventually merged into Verizon.

Downtown Syracuse became a "wilderness" of "cross-armed" telephone poles and the network of open wires throughout the city became more and more complex.

Brower demonstrated the device at the Wieting Opera House in Clinton Square on February 28, 1878.

D. L. Pyke, superintendent of Western Union in Syracuse, opened a rival exchange in the Wieting Block in Downtown Syracuse.



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