Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen-age friend and building electronic devices from six Heath-kits, including his own ham radio rig, stereo and FM tuner. More recently he installed cordless telephones in his New York City apartment and in his country house in the Catskills. "I'm almost as interested in how people...
...starts happening on New Year's Day, just six weeks from now. Under the banner of promoting competition in the U.S. phone service, American Telephone & Telegraph, the Bell System, will die at age 107, shattered in the largest court-mandated breakup of a company since the split-up of Standard Oil in 1911. In place of the old Ma Bell will stand the "new" AT&T and seven regional telephone holding companies, all beginning life as giants and carrying such unfamiliar names as Nynex, Ameritech, U S West and Pacific Telesis. The eight new companies will immediately join...
...will pit AT&T against GTE and ITT in the European market, which it abandoned in 1925 to concentrate on the U.S. telephone system. AT&T and Philips could pry open an unusually tough market long closed to outside suppliers because of dominance by state-owned post, telephone and telegraph services...
...them from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales. Perhaps the most striking feature of the new machine is a battery-operated keyboard that is not attached to the main part of the computer and will enable users to move about a room. Like an American Telephone & Telegraph terminal out last summer, the IBM home computer can communicate with display screens by infrared signals...
American Telephone and Telegraph company, the Ford Foundation, prudential Insurance company, and The Standard Oil company also helped fund the organization...