Telecom history in France - Arrival of the Phone


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Telecom History in France - Arrival of the first Phone Lines

Alexander Bell.com

February 14 1876 Alexander Bell
registers the patent of the invention of the phone.
It is the patent n° 174.465 confirmed by
US Trademark and Patern Bureau in Washington DC march 7 1876.

Only some hours later, Elisha Grey, another inventor
registers a smiliar patern. At the end Alexander Bell
is granted the rights to the invention and the ownership
of what would become one of the World´s most valuable patens.

Emma and Stella Nutt

George Williard Cory, Emma Nutt and her sister Stella Nutt
are the world´s first Telephone Operators.
Emma Nutt was employed by Alexander Bell in person.
According to the legend she could remember every phone number
of the New England Telephone Company (later AT&T) Phone Book.


at the Expo Universelle 1878 there was no Eiffel Tower	and the Statue of Liberty was still in Paris

The phone arrives in Paris at the occasion of
the 1878 Exposition Universelle.
The Expo rewards Alexander Bell with the Grand Prix,
together with his rival inventors Thomas Edison and Elisha Grey.
For the occasion of the expo a very first telephone network
is installed in Paris.

1879 is created the ministry of the Postes et Telegraphes,
the first minister is Adolphe Cochery.
The same year is formed the Société Générale des Téléphones.

The ministry also controls the postal services which have been
created two centuries before, in 1671
34 rue des Bourdonnais / 9 et 11 rue des Dechargeurs Paris 1er
by the french families Pajot and Rouille.

In 1881 Paris has a network of 1602 phonelines

1886 is inaugurated the phoneline from Paris to Brussels

Standardistes

Telephone Operators

Les Demoiselles du Téléphone (Operators) could be reached
by dialing 11 - they were manually connecting phonecalls.
Impossible to dial a number directly.