| 1887 / 1889 Construction of the Eiffel Tower There are many legends and fairy tales and nobody knows precisely who invented the expression Yellowpages ... According to one of legend in 1883 a printer in the US city Cayenne run out of white paper and used yellow he had in stock to finish printing a directory that had to respect a deadline.
as a temporary building for the Expo Universelle in 1889. It is initailly planned to dismantel the Tower in 1909, but it also has it´s use as a Telecommunication equipment, serving as an antenna for radio transmission. Gustave Eiffel fights for the conservation of his tower which is today the icon of France. |
| 1889 Nationalization of the Phonecompany
1889 July 16 a law is passed to nationalize Telephone services.
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1890 France has 10.000 télphone subscribers 1891 a submarine cable is installed under the Channel (la Manche) connecting Paris and London. 1906 Centrales Téléphoniques in Paris 1906 the Telephone network of Paris is divided into 7 "centrales téléphoniques (phone hubs)
Gutenberg, Chaudron, Roquette, Port Royal, Saxe, Passy, Desrenaudes |
