CT’s Game-Changing Contribution to Telephone Communications (Ep. 97)

Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone was made phenomenally more valuable when the telephone switchboard was invented. George Willard Coy doesn’t get nearly the same name recognition as Bell, but his invention catapulted phone usage globally. It all started with humble, home-made components in a building in New Haven and grew to become the Southern New England Telephone Company and also brought about the first telephone directory and telephone poles. Hear the story from the Photo Archives Director of the New Haven Museum, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle.