Invention of the Telephone
Who created the Telephone?
Alexander Grahm Bell
What other company did the AP become a monopoly with?
Western Union
Who held the monopoly over the telephone for the longest?
AT&T
What were the two most stocked letters?
E, T
How was reuters different from the telegraph?
It was nationalized
Why was the telephone created?
To circumvent the Western Union Monopoly.
How were they a monopoly?
The blocked competition and managed news
What kind of monopoly did a PR campaign claim the telephone was.
"A Natural Monopoly"
What was Samuels Morse's motivation to build better software.
Death of his wife/ her never getting his message.
What type of communication did both the telephone and telegraph use?
one-to-one and one-to-many
Who refused to buy the telephone?
Western Union
What did they have a monopoly over?
How did the Telephone effect radio?
They carried broadcast signals to affiliates of the radio networks.
What were the two least stocked letters?
Q, Z
What is the 2nd largest international wire system?
Reuters.
When did Bell start his experiments for the telephone?
1870's
What did they do that made them a monopoly?
Refused to share certain information.
Theft of secret info for stock trading
In 1982 how were phone services broken up?
They were broken up into smaller and cheaper regional carriers.
Who patented the telegraph in 1837
Cooke and Wheatstone
When did AP finally lose their anti-trust lawsuit?
1945
Why did Western Union not want to buy the phone.
What group objected to AP/ Wester Union monopoly?
Labor unions in Appalachia.
What did the Kingsburg commitment decided about the monopoly?
Allowed AT&T to continue as a regulated monopoly.
How did Morse change the software.
Changed the wire system from a complicated fire wire system to an easy one wire system.
What are the two measures of Radio?
Spark radio telegraphy and Continuous wave telephony.