On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the ...
On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...
There was a time when the average person’s words traveled no faster than trains or horse-delivered mail. The telegraph had already proven that electricity could carry coded messages across vast ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New Haven. The New Haven Museum displays a replica of ...
BLOOMINGTON — In early December 1877, W.A. Stent, an agent of Bell Telephone Co. of New York and Western Electric Co. of Chicago, demonstrated to local residents a method of communication that would — ...
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