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Samuel F.B. Morse
D.H. Craig
Associated Press (1848)
Chicago Board of Trade (1848)
Cyrus Field
Alexander Graham Bell
Guglielmo Marconi		 This is an opportune moment to raise the question of the inventor of the telegraph, or of other media: Here, for instance, are some telegraph inventions by Thomas Edison. Could you call any (or all?) the telegraph?

Q. How do networks become valuable?

Q. Where do networking standards come from?

1891 subscribers NYNJ Telephone Co.

973 physicians and hospitals
401 drug stores
363 liquor stores
315 livery stables
162 metal working plants
146 lawyers
126 contractors
100 print shops
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7322 commercial lines
1442 residential lines (including, I've heard, chez Melville!)