[GreenKeys] Where was the "Telegraph" in AT&T?

[Jeffrey Golas]

Found the (an) answer...per this book it was a formality in the name...

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Jeff


> On Feb 2, 2025, at 11:37?PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> ?I think it was Pacific Telephone where you could actually send
> telegrams.  But there was telegraph business outside of sending
> telegrams.  Bell companies could have provided telegraph
> transmission sevice over their wires as a private line offering.
> 
> Especially with open wire pole lines, a "composite set" is a set of
> low-pass and high-pass filters that allow sending telegraph signals
> and voice over a wire pair.  And then there are other services that
> can be considered telegraph - consider burglar alarm wires between
> the customer premises and the alarm company that monitors the situation.
> One such company is American District Telegraph.
> 
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