On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the very first
telephone call. He spoke to his assistant, Thomas Watson, in another room: “Mr.
Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Bell invisioned the world changing for
the better because of his invention. In a letter to his father, he wrote that
someday friends would converse with each other without having to leave home.
Bell went on to create more new inventions, including the photophone in 1880.
This first wireless telephone transmitted sound on a beam of light instead of
electrical wires. It’s the forefather of fiber optic telephone systems. Bell
repeated his famous first phone call in 1915 when transcontinental telephone
lines connected the East and West coasts. This time Watson replied that it
would take him a week as he was in San Francisco and Bell was in New York.
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