1879 The Belgian service for telegraphy installed a telephone line in Parliament. Founding of the first local telephone companies in Belgium, the major ones being subsidiaries of the International Bell Telephone Company of New York. Starting in 1880, the first legislative provisions decreed that telephony, like telegraphy, was to be a monopoly of the state, although concessions could be granted to private companies. 1882 The first international telephone call took place between Brussels and Paris. F. Van Rijsselberghe invented a system to considerably reduce the interference between telegraphs and telephones. This gave telephony a tremendous boost. A Bell product (Bell TMC) of the 1890s. 2
A typical Belgian product with the famous microphone of Trophime Delville. 2
Milestones of two centuries in telecommunications
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