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American telephone service monopoly (1877–1984)
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983. The system of companies was often colloquially called Ma Bell, as it held a vertical monopoly over telecommunication products and services in most areas of the United States and Canada. At the time of the breakup of the Bell System in the early 1980s, it had assets of $150 billion and employed over one million people. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Bell SystemA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Bell Nonlocality in Classical Systems Coexisting with Other System TypesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: TelecommunicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Modelling cost structure: the Bell System revisitedCited 44 times
- Go sideways: Breakup of the Bell SystemA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Verizon New JerseyA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Modelling cost structure: the Bell System revisited
The Bell system technical journal
Bell system R&D activities
Bell-jar rf sputtering system
Telegraphy in the Bell System
Change in the Bell System
Tandem Operation in the Bell System
The Bell-Rutgers Data Highway System
🆕 Influential since 2022
Bell Nonlocality in Classical Systems Coexisting with Other System Types
Experimental switching between coexisting attractors in the yoke–bell–clapper system
Entanglement, quantum steering, and Bell nonlocality in the Tavis–Cummings system
Arduino-Based Automatic School Bell System: A Simple and Cost-Effective Solution
Smart Door Bell System
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕TelecommunicationsUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1988
Against the godsPeter L. Bernstein · 1996
StepfamiliesPete Sanders, Steve Myers · 1994
Three Degrees above ZeroJeremy Bernstein · 1984
Narrative of the discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the nervous systemAlexander Shaw · 1839
Technology deployment and interoperability in the national information infrastructureUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation. · 1995
Three degrees abovezeroJeremy Bernstein · 1984
La cité au bout du filClaire Poitras · 2000
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