Apostoloff Telephone Literature
name: label: Creator
content: Automatic Telephone Company, Ltd.
label: Creator
content: Corrigan, Reseda
label: Names
content: Dubilier Condenser Corporation
label: Former owner
content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Electricity and Modern Physics
label: Names
content: Radio Corporation of America.
label: Names
content: Apostoloff, S.B.
label: Names
content: Margowski, Max
topic: label: Topic
content: telephone -- History
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Mrs. Reseda Corrigan, November 4, 1970.
creator: label: Creator
content: Automatic Telephone Company, Ltd.
label: Creator
content: Corrigan, Reseda
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content: Apostoloff Telephone Literature
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Russian engineer S. B. Apostoloff invented an "automatic" telephone exchange in the late 19th century. It enabled the use of telephones without requiring the services of a human operator through magnetically-actuated switching devices manipulated by the caller. The invention resulted in the organization in London of the Automatic Telephone Company, Ltd. and its reorganization two years later.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.3 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Electricity and Nuclear Energy (now Division of Work and Industry), on June 21, 2001.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0581
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Legal documents
label: Type
content: Clippings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Don Darroch, October 8, 1997.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- 1850-1900
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Press clippings, 1895-1897, from British publications (some unidentified) and one French journal describing the invention and the organization of the Automatic Telephone Company, Ltd. A note on the life of Max Margowski, one of the company's organizers is included, with statements of the company accounts (one a 1901 balance sheet). A record of litigation, some of it possibly related to the Apostoloff invention, is included in the bound "Transcript of Record from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit", March 1930 (457 pages) , which details the suit of the Dubilier Condenser Corporation against the Radio Corporation of America over the previous eight years, concerning the use of certain devices in radio and telephonic communications.