Lowell / Turin / Washington / Lawrence / Springfield / Rochester / Freeport / Boston / Albany / Manchester / New York City / New York / Havana / Providence / New Haven / /
Company
American District Telegraph Company / American Telegraph Company / Antonio Meucci / Marty’s Opera Company / District Telegraph Company / Bell Telephone Company / Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company / Yahoo! / The New York Times / Associated Press / American Bell Telephone Company / New York District Telegraph Co. / Globe Telephone Company / Western Union Telegraph Company / L’Eco d’Italia / Zilio Grandi / Telettrofono Company / Angelo A. Tremeschin / The New York Daily Tribune / New York Stock Exchange / Microsoft Corporation / New York Herald / Liberty St. / Western Union / New York Associated Press / the Tribune / Sereno G. P. Breguglia / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Italy / Switzerland / Cuba / Canada / United States / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / Patent Filing / Person Travel / M&A / /
Facility
Western Union headquarters / Cooper Building / Hoffman’s Café / Hoffmann Café / A&P Headquarters / Western Union’s headquarters / headquarters of Western Union / headquarters of ADT / Steinway Hall / Chickering Hall / Headquarters of Western Union Telegraph / headquarters of A&P / /
Italian Consulate in New York / Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency / New York Permanent Central Committee / UN Court / Norton’s Office / U.S. Government against Alexander Graham Bell / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Canadian Parliament / U.S. Department of Justice / Patent Office in Washington / U.S. House of Representatives / /
Person
Albert B. Chandler / Seth R. Beckwith / David H. Craig / Angelo Bertolino / George F. Durant / Michael Lemmi / Gray / Giuseppe Garibaldi / Lorenzo Delmonico / Antonio Meucci / James J. Storrow / Jay Gould / Steinway / George B. Prescott / Parmelee / John Fleming / Parodi / Thomas Edison / William Orton / Leonard D. Cunningham / Bill Gates / Sereno P. Breguglia / George M. Phelps / G. Francesco Secchi de Casali / William Carroll / Norton / A. G. Bell / Edward B. Grant / Charles Bertolino / Paolo Bovi Campeggi / Thomas D. Stetson / Chickering / Alexander Graham Bell / William H. Vanderbilt / George A. Jenks / Joseph Conti / Graham Bell / Lucius Q. C. Lamar / A. Bertolino / Albert Brown Chandler / /
Position
unscrupulous financier / vice president / Secretary / Director General / superintendent / author / official / Professor / G. P. / patent lawyer / Editor / powerful president / general manager / Colonel / renowned president / model / prominent Engineer / lawyer / Assistant Secretary of the Interior / spokesman / president / long time technical director / Vice-President / Mr. William13 Grant / time general manager / Engineer / businessmen / painter / diver / Secretary of the Interior / /
Product
Microsoft Corporation Portable Audio Device / /
ProvinceOrState
Maine / Massachusetts / New York / Connecticut / Ticino Canton / /
PublishedMedium
The New York Herald / Le Courrier / The Richmond County Gazette / The New York Times / The New York World / the Engineer / The New York Sun / /
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