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Timeline of Alexander Graham Bell
1890 to 1899

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Opening Long-Distance Line

Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from New York to Chicago.

LOC Circa 1892

1890

August-September Alexander Graham Bell and his supporters form the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
December 27 Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner G. Hubbard, "The Father-in-law of the Telephone"

1892

October Alexander Graham Bell participates in the formal opening of long-distance telephone service between New York and Chicago. Photograph

1897

Death of Gardiner Greene Hubbard; Alexander Graham Bell is elected President of the National Geographic Society in his stead.

1898

Alexander Graham Bell is elected a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.

1899

December 30 Acquiring the American Bell Telephone Company's business and property, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company becomes the parent company of the Bell System.
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