Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Syracuse Telephonic Exchange was founded after Frederick C. Brower introduced the Bell telephone to Syracuse, New York in 1878. He had seen the device exhibited at the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 and secured Central New York rights from the Bell system. His father, Hiram C. Brower, was credited with installing the first "speaking tubes" in Syracuse and also the first enunciators and began the first telephone exchange which had about 1,000 subscribers.During 1879, Mathew J. Myers, who operated a local telegraph and messenger service in the city, opened an exchange in the tower of the Gridley Building after sub-leasing the rights from Brower. D. L. Pyke, superintendent of Western Union, opened a rival exchange in the Wieting Block in Downtown Syracuse.The two exchanges merged in 1880, with a total of 35 subscribers and the new establishment was named the Syracuse Telephonic Exchange. Among the services Pyke offered his subscribers was an opportunity to "listen by telephone to all the concerts at the Wieting Opera House.""@en }
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- Syracuse_Telephonic_Exchange abstract "The Syracuse Telephonic Exchange was founded after Frederick C. Brower introduced the Bell telephone to Syracuse, New York in 1878. He had seen the device exhibited at the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 and secured Central New York rights from the Bell system. His father, Hiram C. Brower, was credited with installing the first "speaking tubes" in Syracuse and also the first enunciators and began the first telephone exchange which had about 1,000 subscribers.During 1879, Mathew J. Myers, who operated a local telegraph and messenger service in the city, opened an exchange in the tower of the Gridley Building after sub-leasing the rights from Brower. D. L. Pyke, superintendent of Western Union, opened a rival exchange in the Wieting Block in Downtown Syracuse.The two exchanges merged in 1880, with a total of 35 subscribers and the new establishment was named the Syracuse Telephonic Exchange. Among the services Pyke offered his subscribers was an opportunity to "listen by telephone to all the concerts at the Wieting Opera House."".