Before AT&T was broken up in 1984 by court order, the Bell System referred to AT&T and all the Bell Telephone companies that were part of it, but had separate names to provide a regional flavor. The ...

During a study of evolving telephone designs for our new book, my coauthor Russell A. Flinchum and I came across two of Pratt’s distinguished alumni who had connections to the Bell Telephone System.

Front pages instead of financial sections last week headlined the most important annual report, that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Salient facts regarding the Bell system (Western Electric and ...