May 17, 2005 Guest Speaker
David Spaulding (Center), owner of USAi.net, with President/PDG
John Pettis, Jr. (left) and Haverhill Past President Paul Case
(right).
- David Spaulding, owner of USAi.net spoke about:
- The Internet and some the connectivity
technologies used by his company from traditional land line bandwidth
to the very latest in wireless hi-speed technology.
- The creation of the Haverhill
Cyber District that has transformed Haverhill's former downtown
shoe industry buildings and properties into historic, high-tech
buildings and properties that have low cost rents and high speed
bandwidth.
- How Haverhill has always been
on the forefront of technology. He gave the following example:
- Thomas S. Sanders (1839-1911),
was a prosperous leather merchant in Haverhill and the principle
financier for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. Sander's oldest
child was a deaf mute. Sanders had befriended Bell, a specialist
in teaching the deaf, after Bell had become Sanders child's tutor.
It was in Haverhill that Bell conducted his telephone experiments.
Sanders invested $110,000.00 into Bell's telephone invention.
In 1877, Sanders along with Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner
Hubbard formed the Bell Telephone Company. The first business
telephone call was made in Haverhill, between the home of Sanders
on Kenoza Avenue, and his sole cutting business on Merrimack
Street.
- David Spaulding was invited
to speak at our Club by Haverhill Past President Paul Case.
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