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The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877–1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Kenneth Lipartito
Affiliation:
Baker & Botts and Rice University

Abstract

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Summaries of Dissertations
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1988

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References

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