Theodore N. Vail

Thinkers1845 to 1920Telephone executive

Works

  • Annual Report of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T, 1908

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Known for

The president of AT&T who built the Bell System. His 1908 annual report argued that a telephone's value rises with the number of others it can reach, an early statement of the network effect.

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