Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company
The Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was an American manufacturer of
Along with Western Electric, which supplied the Bell System, Automatic Electric supplying General Telephone, and Stromberg-Carlson, also supplying the independent telephone markets, Kellogg shared in the business of providing the bulk of the nation's telephone equipment until after World War II.[1]
History
Milo G. Kellogg was born into a prominent, wealthy New England family. He attended
In the 1880s, Kellogg was a manager at Western Electric as superintendent of its Chicago manufacturing and research plant, and also at the Southern Telephone and Telegraph Company.[3] In 1897, with Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone expiring, Kellogg established a manufacturing firm, the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company. Kellogg himself held more than 150 patents, and had invented the divided multiple telephone switchboard, which became the flagship product of the new company. This switchboard offered greater flexibility and efficiency than earlier designs in handling a large telephone subscriber base at urban exchanges.[4] Kellogg primarily supplied local independent telephone companies.[1]
Fight for control
In 1901, Kellogg fell seriously ill. His brother-in-law,
When Milo Kellogg recovered his health, and discovered what DeWolf had done, he sued to stop the sale of his stock. In two separate decisions by the Supreme Court of Illinois—Brown v. Cragg, 230 Ill. 299 (1907) and Dunbar v. American Telephone and Telegraph, 238 Ill. 456 (1909)—Kellogg retained ownership of his company.[5]
1903 strike
In 1903, the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was the target of a bitter
Post-WWII history
The
In 1958, ITT Kellogg was a contractor to the
Also for 1958, Kellogg Corporation established a location in Raleigh, North Carolina for the production of telecommunications transmission equipment. The location at 2912 Wake Forest Road, was in manufacturing operations until 1990 as a recent merged Alcatel location. This 24-acre site, later became a research and development facility between 1991 through 2003.[10]
In 1989, ITT sold its telecommunications product lines, including ITT Kellogg, to Alcatel, now Alcatel-Lucent. The company's US operations were later sold and privatized.
On December 12, 2008 eOn Communications announced an agreement to acquire Cortelco Systems Holding Corporation.[11]
References
- ^ a b c d Cohen, The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940, 2004.
- ^ Chicago: Pictorial and Biographical, 1912.
- ^ a b Adams and Butler, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric, 1999.
- ^ a b "Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co.," Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000), 2005.
- ^ Cohen, "Business Myths, Lawyerly Strategies, and Social Context: Ernst on Labor Law History," Law & Social Inquiry, January 1989.
- ^ Christensen v. Kellog Switchboard, 110 Illinois App. 61 (1903); "Facing Defeat Unions Weaken," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 18, 1903.
- ^ Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism, 1995.
- ^ Museum, Radio. "Not released or deleted or members only - or a temporarily p".
- ^ Industry Observer, Aviation Week, October 13, 1958, vol. 69, no. 15, p. 23.
- ^ Leonard, Laura J. (4 October 2019). "Wegmans: The History Behind the Experience". State of North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ "EOn Communications". Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
Bibliography
- Adams, Stephen B., and Butler, Orville R, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-521-65118-9
- Clarke S.J., Chicago: Pictorial and Biographical. Vol. 2, Deluxe Supplement. Chicago (1912).
- Cohen, Andrew Wender, "Business Myths, Lawyerly Strategies, and Social Context: Ernst on Labor Law History." Law & Social Inquiry. 23:1 (January 1989).
- Cohen, Andrew Wender, The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-83466-7
- Ernst, David R. Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-252-06512-5
- Chicago Daily Tribute, Facing Defeat Unions Weaken (July 18, 1903)
- Gable, Richard W., Birth of an Employers' Association., Business History Review, 33:4 (Winter, 1959).
- Chicago Historical Society, Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000); Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. Chicago (2005).