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    be sold to the Western Union Company but one of Western Unions competitors, Jay Gould, swooped in and offered Edison more than $100,000 in cash. With Edison's financial success he married Mary Stilwell and had 3 children; he would be married to her for the next 13 years. By 1876 Edison decided to expand his operations by building a new research facility in Meleno, New Jersey. Edison planned to create something that would compete with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone but he never got around to…

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    newer inventory, special employee funds, and covering other unforeseen emergencies. Furthermore, Verizon has also funded their daily operations by accepting special financing from vendors like Apple and Samsung. This is especially useful when these companies are trying to push their new products and services, which eases the financial burden on Verizon. Finally, the other method that Verizon has used over the last decade was receiving funds from bank loans. These bank loans were provided as…

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    industry are MTN, Globacom and Airtel. According to a report done by a London based research team, Pyramid Research, the two companies (MTN and Airtel) contributed a lion share of 68 per cent of the total $9.8 Billion meant for revenue for the telecommunication industry. The above assessment leaves 34 per cent to be shared by the rest of the over eighty licensed companies (“Nigeria- Telecoms Infrastructure, Operators, Regulations- Statistics and Analyses-BuddeComm”,…

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    1848-1928 Lewis H. Latimer was a leading engineer in the formative years of the electric power industry at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. He was a key member of the legendary group of inventors led by Thomas Edison. Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, to George Latimer and Rebecca Smith. Latimer’s father was well known as the central figure in a cause célèbre in Boston in 1842 when he was arrested as an escaped slave and ordered returned…

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    outcome. The entrepreneurs and inventors of technology are very plentiful. Such as, Alexander Graham Bell, who made the first telephone; Henry Ford, the automobile; The Wright brothers, the airplane, just to name a few. These entrepreneurs started out with a dream or maybe an idea. They came to make all of these inventions because they and friends to believe in them. Many companies saw what the inventors were doing and they wanted to help so they invested money into them to help their idea…

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    The cost of equipment, lines, manpower and maintenance is reduced significantly compared to traditional phones such as the phone bill or mobile telephone bill. There is also a high net saving advantage that results from the management of a single network, and this is made possible through the IP Phones. For many firms, especially those with international clients or suppliers, one of the biggest contributors…

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    This was his baby! It all started when Western Union asked him to create a communication device to compete with Bell’s telephone. He never did but by December of 1877, Thomas Alva Edison invented a device for recording sound called the phonograph. While he was working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone he figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil coated cylinders. He created a machine with two needles, one for recording and one for playback. When…

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    1- To improve the overall quality of telephone service in my organization I would provide the training on knowing how to answer the phone with good manners and also emergent good communication conducts are imperative skills you can study to learn how to answer the phones. I will show them how to come upon a selection of circumstances, I will tell them we have to improve our services and its responsibility, especially for our public to help develop and to ensure the business to be able to focus…

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    Bell discovered that speech is in patterns. He gained financial aid from Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders. An electrical engineer named Thomas Watson helped Bell to invent the telephone. He successfully invented he telephone in 1876. In that same year, Elisha Gray was applying for a patent for the telephone but used…

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    As stated on the website the markofaleader.com, “most people today- at least those of us in so-called developed countries -to remember or even imagine a world without telephones, movie theaters, recorded music, or even electric lights.” This means that Thomas Edison invented most of the things listed because he was alive during this time period. He changed life after dark, changed entertainment, and created a machine that…

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