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Company Details
American Speaking Telephone Company
This company was formed by a November 17, 1877 agreement to combine the interests in Edison's telephone patents controlled by Gold and Stock Telegraph Company as a subsidiary of Western Union with those of Elisha Gray's telephone patents controlled by the Harmonic Telegraph Company. Gold and Stock was given the exclusive right to manufacture, sell, and lease telephone instruments protected by these patents.