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Article: TELEPHONE SERVICE QUICKLY GAINED POPULARITY.(Kentucky Life: History)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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The introduction of telephone service in Northern Kentucky came at just about the same time as it did in Louisville.
After James B. Speed observed a demonstration of telephone technology at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1877, he immediately ordered a set of two telephones to connect the downtown office in his Louisville Cement Company with the plant.
By 1879, just three years after Bell patented his new invention, Speed had organized Louisville's first telephone company, the American District Telephone Company, with 200 subscribers.
At about the same time, telephone service came into Northern Kentucky from Cincinnati. In January ...