A transatlantic telephone service began between New York and London with a phone conversation between Bell AT&amp;T President W.S. Gifford and Sir Evelyn P. Murray, the head of the British General Post Office.

Walter Sheeman Gifford, president of AT &amp; T, seated at a desk.

Telephone Building

1st Transatlantic telephone call

The Chamber's membership in 1849, and the Chamber became increasingly involved in trade and commerce concerns at the national and international levels, including the completion of the first Atlantic cable.