Who invented the yellow pages?

Question

Who invented the yellow pages?

Answer 1

In 1886, Reuben H. Donnelly created the first Yellow Pages directory.

Answer 2

The guy from the Movies "Kill Bill"

Answer 3

The name and concept of "Yellow Pages" came about in 1883, when a printer in Cheyenne, Wyoming working on a regular telephone directory ran out of white paper and used yellow paper instead. Reuben H. Donnelly later expanded on this concept in 1886 to recreate the first official yellow pages directory.

Answer 4

big bird from sesame street lol

I think ma bell

Answer 5

A printer creating a telephone book in 1883 ran out of white paper and had to use yellow.  In 1886, Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (which was at one time the country's largest publisher of telephone and other directories) expanded on this concept to create the very first "yellow pages" directory.

Answer 6

Loren Murphy Berry

(July 24, 1888 - February 10, 1980) was born in Wabash, Indiana, the son of Charles D. and Elizebeth (Murphy) Berry. He was a pioneer in the Yellow Pages business telephone directory industry.

He recognized the opportunities for Yellow Pages and soon concentrated on a telephone directory operation that, as L. M. Berry Company, developed into a coast-to-coast enterprise and became one of the foremost telephone directory publishers in the United States, handling one out of every four telephone

Berry became known as "Mr. Yellow Pages." His motto was "It CAN be done!" He expanded his operations to Europe, where the product is called the Golden Pages. The company sold advertising space and handled production for many of the local Yellow Pages. It was sold to BellSouth Corp. in 1986. Terms were not disclosed, but industry observers estimated the sales price at more than $1 billion. The subsidiary is operated as The Berry Company and is responsible for more than 800 directory titles nationwide, serving more than 100 U.S. telephone companies and one million advertisers.