An act of 1894 Massachusetts legislature established the Boston Transit Commission. Under the Commission's transit department, the following tunnel and subways were constructed:

for a cost of $35.5 million.

In 1893, Thompson/Houston Electric Company of Lynn and General Electric Company merge and occupy 101 acres of land in Lynn, upon which are manufactured turbine generators, motors, street lamps, traffic signals, meters, transformers and appliances.

In 1897, Holtzer/Cabot Electric Company of Boston, which had been in business since 1875 manufacturing equipment used in telegraphy, door bells, annunciators and ignition of illuminating gases, designed a line of noiseless telephone charging generators for telephone switchboards and central energy ringing units, giving alternating current for ringing bells with special signals for "party lines," "busy signals" and "don't answer signals." This is almost noteworthy achievement for the telephone industry.

The motor department manufactured fractional horsepower motors for automatic machinery, such as musical instruments, office and domestic appliances, farm and dairy machinery, medical appliances and elevating devices, fans, blowers and machine tools through the 1920 period.

In 1881, financiers, Jay Bould and William Vanderbilt, direct their Western Union Telegraph to buy out American Union, and Atlantic and Pacific Coast companies forming a monopoly of over 75,000 miles of telegraph wire in America. Their main stations are in New York in Boston Financial Districts.