Search results for "American Telephone and Telegraph" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic, then data communications ... After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working ...
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  • Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far and graphein = write) ... A telegraph is a machine for transmitting and receiving messages over ...
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  • The telephone (or phone) (from Greek: tele = far away; phone = voice ... *1885: American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is formed. ...
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  • 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, and innovator. He emigrated to ... Bell is widely acclaimed for inventing and developing the telephone ...
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  • – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist ... experience requiring responsible actions and resolution of conflicts. ...
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  • Joseph Henry (December 17, 1799 – May 13, 1878) was a Scottish-American ... New York, the son of Ann Alexander Henry and William Henry, both of whom ...
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  • (October 6 1846 – March 12 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer ... of the alternating current system for light and power.” ...
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  • Billy Rose (September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American ... or co-writer of the lyrics to "Me and My Shadow," "Great ...
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  • Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American ... particularly Edwin Howard Armstrong, and was driven toward bankruptcy ...
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  • of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. Together ... tools, appliances, elevators, computers, and an expanding variety of electronic ...
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  • Today, telecommunication is widespread and devices that assist the process ... Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and John Logie Baird. Telecommunication ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations ... reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. Its main focus ...
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  • or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time, E* ("Echo ... The longitude difference between Mirzapur and the United Kingdom's ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations ... Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered ...
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  • Thomas Alva Edison (February 11,1847 – October 18,1931) was an American ... mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law officer's clothing, accessories, and behaviour must be as unremarkable ...
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  • is, at frequencies lying below the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic ... (but not limited to) the following: Radio and television broadcasting, ship ...
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  • The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio ... States was dominated by two companies, CBS and RCA's NBC. Prior to NBC ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication ... documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing ...
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  • author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both ... Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008), and Our Kind of Traitor (2010 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ...
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  • status began in 1905. Ahn was arrested and held in Japanese prison after ... ==Early life and education== An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics ... the Matter of the Appeal of American Telephone and Telegraph Company." ...
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  • which prohibit anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices ... practices of market traders, guilds, and governments have always been ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law on the gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of information ...
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  • Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American ... She became famous in these two nations and well-known around the world ...
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  • A newspaper is a publication containing news, information, and advertising ... sheets were filled with information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. ...
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  • a Scottish scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's ... the exchange of information (both sight and sound) about cultures and ...
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  • Electronic engineering is a discipline that utilizes the behavior ... amongst some of the older (notably American) universities and graduates ...
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  • (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator ... on the board of directors of American Telephone and Telegraph. In 1955, Bush ...
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  • 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American author who wrote a series ... Laura herself was born in a log cabin and yet in her lifetime she ...
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  • news media organizations usually edit and proofread their reports prior ... traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...
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  • ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. Two devastating ...
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  • of novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. patients as an expression of their reality and not as a mental illness per se. ...
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  • the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ended with the ... as a shrimp between two whales, Japan and China representing the whales ...
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  • between the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the ... center of commerce in the colonial period and into the twentieth century ...
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  • of paper. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth ... were indispensable tools in business offices and for many (if not all) professional ...
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  • Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from ... had an incredible impact on the expansion and development of human society ...
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  • the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated ... finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the ...
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  • manipulation, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information ... the perspective of the stakeholders involved and then applying information ...
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  • bombing as a result of radiation exposure, and not least, the pressure to ... Japan’s surrender, as well as the effects and justification of them, has ...
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  • received an alarm call. By the time police and firefighters arrived, the ... Bulgarians Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev, and Blagoy Popov, known Comintern ...
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  • 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical ... of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the victor in ...
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  • 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor ... pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career ...
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  • the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army and the Wacht am Rhein (Watch ... revealed nothing about the up-coming buildup and offensive. Moreover, the degree ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics ... on October 24 ("Black Thursday") and continued through October ...
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  • premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from ... operational domain encompassed functions and powers like those exercised ...
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  • – June 3, 1989) was a Shi`i Muslim cleric and marja (religious authority ... Khomeini was also a highly-influential and innovative Islamic political ...
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  • Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are ... saw as an outdated image: American Telephone and Telegraph became AT&T ...
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