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The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the Bell System was dismantled.
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1984 marked the end of the Bell System.The New York City headquarters building was sold to Sony in 1992 and the company relocated its headquarters to 32 Avenue of the Americas (which had no room for the statue) and many operating functions across the Hudson River and about forty miles west to a 140-acre (0.57 km 2) wooded campus purchased nine years previously in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal), is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, Inc., which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.
The initial logo for the web browser, depicting a phoenix rather than a fox. The initial concept for the logo of Firefox depicted a phoenix rather than a fox, in line with the browser's name during early development, when it was known as Phoenix and Firebird rather than Firefox.
The first 'Blocks' logo with italicised lettering, used between 1958 and 1963. In 1953, Abram Games was commissioned to design an on-air image. [3] Nicknamed the 'bat's wings', [3] it consisted of a rounded brass contraption with a tiny spinning globe in its centre, with large wing-like protrusions flanked by lightning bolts on either side.
A Bell System logo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1916. Share of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, issued 20. December 1921. AT&T started with Bell Patent Association, a legal entity established in 1874 to protect the patent rights of Alexander Graham Bell after he invented the telephone system.
The current AT&T Inc. claims the original AT&T Corporation's history (dating to 1877) as its own, [40] but retains SBC's pre-2005 corporate structure and stock price history. As well, all SEC filings before 2005 are under SBC, not AT&T. AT&T made an attempt in 2011 to purchase T-Mobile for a $39 billion stock and cash offer. [41]