000-dollar-power

Updated: June 6, 2025

To put its totals into a sentence, it is an enterprise of 26,000-man-power, and 40,000,000-dollar-power; and the telephonic goods that it produces in half a day are worth one hundred thousand dollars as much, by the way, as the Western Union REFUSED to pay for the Bell patents in 1877.

Herbert Newton Casson - The History of the Telephone