AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. [20] By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [21] One of its subsidiaries was the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), established in 1885. [22] On December 30, 1899, AT&T acquired the ...
As a tribute to its founder’s name, AT&T chose a bell as its first visual symbol. Designed in 1889, the company’s first logo displayed a bell in a triple square frame. One year later, in 1900, the logo was reshaped into an emblem.