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	Theodore Newton Vail - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"THEODORE NEWTON VAIL (1845-1920), American capitalist, was born on a farm in Carroll county, 0., July 16 1845.
		In 1878 he was made general manager of the American Bell Telephone Co., and for the next seven years was actively engaged in the development of the telephone business, for which he foresaw a great future.
		After the taking over of the wires in Aug. 1918 by the Government as a war measure, he was appointed adviser by the PostmasterGeneral and urged unified control of all cables, telegraphs and telephones.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Theodore_Newton_Vail (269 words)

	Theodore N. Vail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theodore Newton Vail made his fortune in the telephone and mining business, and was the first president of AT&T.
		Theodore N. Vail, President of AT&T, to Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone in New York.
		Vail was first president of the Telephone Pioneers of America.
	www.energy.rochester.edu /bio/vail (236 words)

	Theodore Newton Vail
		William P. Vail of this family was a leading physician and church worker in Northern New Jersey at Blairstown, and George Vail represented his section in Congress and was one of the lay Judges of the New Jersey Court of Pardons.
		Vail to Washington and assigned him to duty in the office of the General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service, where he was charged with special oversight of distribution of the mails and arrangement of "schemes" or charts of distribution.
		Vail was the youngest of the officers of the Railway Mail Service, both in years and terms of service, and when the final appointment was handed to him by Marshall Jewell, Postmaster General, the latter said that his only objection to Mr.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~nnnotables/ztnv.html (1249 words)

	Historic Speedwell - Morristown, NJ - Vail Family: Prof. Ameigh biography
		Theodore Vail began making his mark in telecommunication at a young age as a telegraph operator in Morristown and later in what was then the western frontier at Pinebluff, Wyoming, along the not yet completed Union Pacific railroad.
		Theodore N. Vail was probably the first "Cybermogul." Like the computer barons of the latter half of the twentieth century, He recognized that advances in communication technology would bring society to a new plane.
		Vail's massive wooden house, used for many years as a main campus center, was demolished by the College in the 1970s after falling victim to vandals and the ravages of time.
	parks.morris.nj.us /speedwell/Vail/Ameigh.html (5052 words)

	Historic Speedwell - Morristown, NJ - Vail Family: Prof. Ameigh biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theodore Vail began making his mark in telecommunication at a young age as a telegraph operator in Morristown and later in what was then the western frontier at Pinebluff, Wyoming, along the not yet completed Union Pacific railroad.
		Vail's massive wooden house, used for many years as a main campus center, was demolished by the College in the 1970s after falling victim to vandals and the ravages of time.
		Stephen Vail the social reformer, Alfred Vail the philosopher, Samuel Morse the artist, Thomas Watson the actor, Theodore Vail the enlightened capitalist and philanthropist.
	www.speedwell.org /Vail/Ameigh.html (5052 words)

	Telecommunications Virtual Museum
		Theodore Newton Vail was born in 1847, in Carroll County, Ohio.
		Vail was a dreamy boy and a great reader and, in his early adulthood, had trouble sticking to any one career.
		The Vail medal was established in his memory in 1921, to award employees "in recognition of unusual acts or services, which conspicuously illustrate the high ideals which governed the policy of Mr.
	www.telcomhistory.org /vm/heroesVail.shtml (1150 words)

	Theodore Newton Vail
		Theodore Vail was one of ATandT's most far-sighted presidents.
		Vail was born on July 16, 1845 in Ohio.
		In 1907, Vail returned to what was essentially his previous job, though now the company was known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, or ATandT.
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/addlbios/vail.html (369 words)

	Churning Things Up
		Vail's vision was to expand telephone service throughout the U.S.; consolidation, he was convinced, was a must.
		Vail proposed offering universal service throughout the U.S. –; but he argued that to provide service to underserved areas, ATandT would have to be protected from competition in high-density areas.
		With this deal, Theodore Vail changed his operating environment and set the stage for ATandT to become one of the most prominent corporations in the world for much of the 20th century.
	www.mutualofamerica.com /articles/Fortune/July03/fortune.asp (1111 words)

	Theodore Newton Vail Summary
		Theodore Newton Vail (1845--1920) was an American entrepreneur who made his fortune in the telephone and mining business and became the first president of the Bell Telephone Company (later American Telegraph and Telephone or ATandT).
		Vail was born on July 16, 1845, near the town of Minerva, Ohio.
		Vail's mission was to save the troubled organization, which had gotten into trouble because its phone patents had expired and other smaller companies were coming into the telephone communications business.
	www.bookrags.com /Theodore_Newton_Vail (2021 words)

	Introduction to Telecommunication Networks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theodore Vail, became the president of ATandT in 1909.
		Vail develope a corporate strategy around the concept of 'universal service' and persuaded Congress that telephone business should be granted a unique status -- as a natural monopoly.
		Vail argued that if telephone companies were forced to compete with each other for cust omers and profit, most companies will develop their networks in densely populated cities.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~kayany/networks/ch00/a9.htm (561 words)

	Theodore Newton Vail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Newton Vail (1845 - 1920) was a U.S. telephone industrialist.
		He served as the president of ATandT between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919 (the company was named American Telephone and Telegraph before 1994).
		Theodore Newton Vail's biographic sketch at Find A Grave
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Newton_Vail (146 words)

	RootsWeb: VAIL-L [VAIL] J.H. Vail relative of Alfred and Theodore Vail
		Vail was made General Superintendent of the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting with headquarters at 65 Fifth Avenue, NYC, where from 1882 to 1895 he was actively engaged in supervising the designing and installation of many contracts for isolated lighting plants on behalf of the Edison interests.
		Vail was unusually active in the affairs of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies from its beginning, as shown by the minutes of that organization, and was its Secretary during the years of 1886-1889.
		Vail became interested in the electric vehicle business, but after some seven years of arduous work and the investment of practically all his available capital in the enterprise, he was compelled to admit its commercial and financial failure.
	newsarch.rootsweb.com /th/read/VAIL/2001-10/1002473077 (1202 words)

	Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown
		Vail, a former Post Office manager, understood large organizations and had an innate feeling for the nature of large-scale communications.
		Vail, the former Post Office official, was quite willing to accommodate the US government; in fact he would forge an active alliance with it.
		Bell's policy, and the policy of Theodore Vail, was a profoundly democratic policy of universal access. Vail's famous corporate slogan, "One Policy, One System, Universal Service," was a political slogan, with a very American ring to it.
	www.chriswaltrip.com /sterling/crack1c.html (1317 words)

	Vails of Speedwell: They Turned Telecommunication into a Business
		Theodore Vail claimed to have developed the technique of bundling mail for individual towns and cities while a train was en route.
		Vail instituted a pension plan that was both generous and innovative in its approach, and the Company allowed employees to participate in efforts to improve their own working conditions.
		I doubt that the Vails would be surprised to learn of the abundance and variety of communication modes available to the public at the dawn of the twenty-first century, or that information processing has become the primary currency of the modern economic order.
	www.oswego.edu /~ameigh/sym1.html (5081 words)

	Notable Vail Kin
		The first alteration which Vail made in the Morse machine was the substitution of a fountain-pen for the recording pencil; this, however, not proving successful, he invented the armature lever having a vertical motion, so that it could be brought down upon the record strip instead of being carried across it.
		Vail, who died in Hartford, Conn., in 1894, had endeavored to secure for her husband proper credit for his share in the invention of the magnetic electric telegraph, and at the Chicago exposition in 1893, the name of Alfred Vail was displayed in letters of light among the names of eminent electricians.
		Vail was general superintendent of the Edison Electric Light Company, in which position he oversaw the design and construction of central stations.
	members.tripod.com /~ntgen/bw/vail_ntbl.html (2075 words)

	Howstuffworks "How AT&T Works"
		Vail was in charge of the U.S. Postal Service, which had taken great advantage of technological innovations such as the railroad and the telegraph to make it the envy of the world.
		Vail's vision of a national utility controlled by a single company could not be fulfilled without a major shift in strategy.
		Vail may have been a little ahead of his time, as the capital outlay was too rich for some powerful members of his board of directors.
	electronics.howstuffworks.com /att1.htm (585 words)

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		Stephen Vail’s son, Alfred Vail, was Samuel F.B. Morse’s partner in refining and introducing the telegraph.
		His father Stephen was the main source of venture capital for their partnership; the elder Vail provided the funding and work space for their work on the telegraph, which was first demonstrated successfully at Speedwell in 1838.
		Davis’s son, Theodore Newton Vail, was founder of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and the first well-known personality to be dubbed the "Great Communicator" by his contemporaries.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=403 (324 words)

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		Theodore Vail is a major name in the history of telecommunications.
		Vail is known to have succeeded so remarkably in the communications business not because of some over abundant talent, but because of his willingness to take risks and his ability to envision a future beyond what other people of the era imagined possible.
		Vail once claimed, “real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” Vail dedicated the Bell Company to creating the first transcontinental phone service in the world.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=317 (445 words)

	Going the Distance, and Beyond -
		Vail first joined the company as general manager in 1878 but left in 1887 after differences with directors, who favored a policy of paying hefty dividends.
		Vail also argued that the nature of the telephone technology meant that the logical business structure was a monopoly, and he was willing to accept government regulation as the tradeoff for recognition of monopoly status.
		Vail also guided the effort to build the first true transcontinental telephone line, which debuted in 1915 only after considerable technical obstacles were overcome.
	wired-vig.wired.com /news/business/1,13246-0.html (951 words)

	Theodore Newton Vail -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theodore Newton Vail (1845 - 1920) was a (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) U.S. telephone industrialist.
		He served as the president of (additional info and facts about AT&T) AT&T between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919 (the company was named American Telephone & Telegraph before 1994).
		This was formalised in the form of the (additional info and facts about Kingsbury Commitment) Kingsbury Commitment of 1913.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/theodore_newton_vail.htm (112 words)

	A Capsule History of the Bell System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vail and his fellow telephone people discovered, as the 1880's continued and more and more telephones were installed, that more and more equipment became necessary if telephone service was to continue its growth and high quality service was to endure and improve.
		Theodore Vail had come to believe more and more firmly that long distance lines were of prime importance to the Bell Company's success, but long distance lines crossed the territory of licensed telephone companies and had to use poles belonging to them.
		Vail had the future of the company in his hands, but he had known for 20 years what should be done to shape the Bell telephone companies into the vital, growing, powerful and successfully unified organization he wanted them to be.
	www.bellsystemmemorial.com /capsule_bell_system.html (17543 words)

	Lyndon State College - Vermont State Colleges
		The T. Vail Center is one of the busiest areas on the Lyndon State College campus.
		Vail First Floor houses the campus mailroom, Vermont Interactive TV and the college radio station, WWLR (91.5), a student-run broadcast medium that operates 24/7.
		Vail Fourth floor is made up of student classrooms and faculty offices for the Social Sciences, Psychology, Math, English, Education and Meteorology Departments.
	www.lsc.vsc.edu /?tab=1&page=61 (366 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Ma Bell, Age 97, Dies
		Theodore Vail, who had been the original president of ATandT but had quit when the financiers controlling the Bell Company wanted to maximize quick profits at the expense of long-term growth, was brought back in when J. Morgan and others took control in 1907.
		Vail worked hard to improve service and to improve the corporate image, requiring, for instance, that all employees be polite when dealing with customers, while continuing to gain control of more and more of the telephone systems in the United States.
		Vail had warned of the consequences, noting that while ATandT was effectively a monopoly, “all monopolies should be regulated.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/web/20070108-att-bell-telephone-company-monopoly-ma-bell-alexander-graham-bell-theodore-vail.shtml (1207 words)

	Lyndon, Vermont - Community \| Lyndonville, Vermont
		Theodore N. Vail and others contributed funds to reopen the school and add a boarding program for forty students.
		In 1910, Theodore N. Vail organized a private school for training in farming and allied industries, which was open to all Vermont boys.
		Vail said: "This is a school to teach boys the lessons of life that industry, application and intelligence combined are necessary to success and that some sacrifice of our natural inclination to take things easy is necessary if we are to accomplish anything.
	www.vermonter.com /nek/lyndon4.asp (2284 words)

	Bell System History - The Bell System
		Vail was the first to perceive that harassing the independents-as unquestionably had been done in the years preceding 1907 - would do little to advance the monopoly cause.
		Theodore Vairs contemporaries agreed with him as to the degenerative danger of government ownership; but they wanted to fight it by fighting symptoms-fighting this or that bill in the legislature, opposing this or that candidate and supporting another, and so on.
		Vail's determination and his confidence in the telephone company's future were unshaken by the fact that the money market was dangerously sagging and recession loomed ahead.
	www.porticus.org /bell/bellsystem_history.html (14857 words)

	H e a r t l a n d S c i e n c e - - The Ohio Academy of Science -
		Theodore Newton Vail, born in Carroll County in 1845, oversaw construction of America’s first transcontinental telephone system while president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
		Vail was firmly committed to scientific research and in 1907 organized the famed Bell Telephone Laboratories, which had won a dozen Nobel Prizes and done research that impacted the lives of millions of people.
		The audions boosted the signal as it passed along the wire, and the first trial took place in July, 1914, when Theodore Vail (then President of ATandT) spoke for the first time from one coast to the other.
	www.heartlandscience.org /comm/telecom.htm (328 words)

	Antenna, November 2002
		Although the reasons for Morgan’s coup were financial, Vail and his colleagues understood the political and cultural aspects of the firm’s woes.
		Such was the dilemma that Theodore Vail faced in 1907.
		However, his first major action as president was the launch of an exten-sive public relations campaign at the heart of which was a long and influential series of magazine ads created by the N.W. Ayer and Son advertising agency.
	www.mercurians.org /nov2002/macdougall.html (1470 words)

	Morristown's History
		Built between 1916 and 1918, the Vail Mansion was designed to serve as both a residence and a museum for Theodore Vail.
		Vail´s collection of art and family inventions, while the second floor was to be his living quarters.
		Unfortunately, Theodore Vail died soon after the completion of the building and never lived there.
	www.morristown-nj.org /history_cont.html (1425 words)

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