New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was a very early company set up to develop the then-new telephone.
New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation, now part of Verizon.