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Accumulator Co., 1890 I/U Bond Signed by Theodore Vail as President, the first president of AT&T.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:130.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Accumulator Co., 1890 I/U Bond Signed by Theodore Vail as President, the first president of AT&T.
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New Jersey, 1890, $1000, 6% 2nd Mortgage "A" Income Gold Coupon Bond, S/N #29, Black on green border and underprint, No vignette, VF condition. Signed by Theodore Vail as president. He was the first president of AT&T. Theodore Newton Vail (1845 – 1920) was a U.S. telephone industrialist. Born in Minerva, Ohio, he served as the president of American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) between 1885 and 1889, and again from 1907 to 1919. He convinced President Woodrow Wilson that the telephone as a medium of communication would spread more rapidly if it was brought under one monopoly so as to ensure uniform provision of services throughout the country. He oversaw the building of the first American coast to coast telephone system, and it was his dedication to basic science that initiated a new research arm for AT&T called Bell Laboratories. During his tenure, he set up the Western Electric Company, a division of the company which built telephone equipment.