The first phone call in history 148 years ago
Alexander Graham Bell uses telephone in New York to call Chicago (1876).
About 148 years ago, the famous Scottish scientist Alexander Graham Bell conducted the first live experiment to conduct a telephone conversation between two distant cities, where a call was made between the first and his friend and assistant Thomas Watson.
The two lived in Boston and New York
As for the first phone call, Bell and his assistant Watson were as follows:
"Come here, Mr. Watson, I need you."
According to the "bostonmagazine" website, in 1876, the American "Alexander Graham Bell" in Philadelphia, USA, presented his invention related to transmitting sound via a copper wire. This event spread quickly, and during the following years the installation of telephone devices began in many places in the world. However, Graham Bell intended through his basic idea to develop an audio device only and not to create an alternative to the Morse telegraph machine.
As for the first phone call, Bell and his assistant Watson were as follows: “Come here, Mr. Watson, I need you.”
The call became a short but major turning point in what was then a fast-moving technological wave, and a lot happened thanks to Alexander Graham Bell's invention. Six years after Bell invented the telephone, the technology spread, but mainly as a means of local communication. There were lines between Lowell and Boston, and between Boston and Providence.
Indeed, the success of the Boston-Providence line gave enough hope that Bell began working on a grander idea: a line from New York to Boston, made possible by the innovation of using copper wire. In the 1910 History of the Telephone, Herbert Newton Casson stated that this long-distance line, like the most expensive technological gamble, was.
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