But to make it work Amsden actually needed his own radio station.
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Florac came up with a design smaller than Amsden had envisioned-
about the size of an eyeglass case and small enough to fit in a pocket.
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In 1924,
a New York City businessman named Sherman Amsden started a company called the Doctors' Telephone Service,
one of the very first answering services in the country.
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But as the calls poured in and messages piled up, Amsden noticed that many clients-
including some doctors- didn't check for messages as often as he thought they should.
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More than 20 years passed before a company called Motorola took Sherman Amsden's concept- pagers that worked all over a city-
and married it with Al Gross's idea of beeping pagers that could be signaled individually.