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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."〔 ==History== In 1876, Frederick C. Brower journeyed to Philadelphia to see the Centennial Exposition, and when he returned home he brought the telephone with him. While at the exposition, Brower watched Alexander Graham Bell's demonstration of telephony and was impressed to such an extent, that he applied for, and received a license to develop and operate a telephone system〔 for New York State (north of the Pennsylvania state line). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syracuse Telephonic Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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