Bell's First phone call
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) engineered the first intelligible electronic transmission of voice
at BU
(a Exeter Str). The phrase was "Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you".
He invented the telephone 150 years ago on March 10, 1876. He patented it on March 7th and demonstrated it
three days later.
- On October 9, 1876 the first two-way along distance conversation was done for 3 hours.
It was also the first wire conversation.
From the Corner of Osborn and Main Streets
in Cambridge (Former Dr Lands Laboratory) to the office of Walworth
MfG company 69 Kilby street in Boston.
- In February 1877, a telephone call from Salem MA
(Lyceum on Church St) to his assistant Watson in Boston was made;
also music was played. The Bell telephone company was created in the same year 1877.
A few days later, Bell would marry Mabel Hubbard at the Hubbard estate
(the original mansion was demolished in 1938, it must be near Hubbard park).
- In 1915, the first transcontinental conversation between New York and San Francisco was done.
Over 18 years, the Bell telephone company faced 587 court challenges to its patent.
