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First Transcontinental Telephone Call

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First transcontinental telephone call (3600 miles), with Thomas Augustus Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco receiving a call from Alexander Graham Bell at 15 Dey Street in New York City is made.

Almon Strowger

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Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch – the first automatic telephone exchange.

Bell Telephone Company

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The Bell Telephone Company is organized by Alexander Graham Bell’s future father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who becomes its first president.

First Experimental Telephone Exchange

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The first experimental telephone exchange was based on the ideas of Tividar Puskás, and it was built by the Bell Telephone Company in Boston in 1877. He would go on to improve upon his invention, developing the multiplex switchboard.

Elisha Gray

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Elisha Gray filed a patent caveat on Feb 14, 1876 for a liquid transmitter used in a telephone, but the patent was ultimately awarded to Alexander Graham Bell.

Bell’s Photophone

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On June 3, 1880 Alexander Graham Bell succeeded in transmitting a wireless voice telephone message using his photophone, an invention that allowed transmission of speech on a beam of light (the precursor to both fiber optic and wireless communications).

First Two-Way Long Distance Call

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On February 12, 1877, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Mr. Watson demonstrated the first two-way long distance telephone call between the Lyceum in Salem to the Boston Globe in Boston.

First One-Way Long Distance Call

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Alexander Graham Bell makes the world’s first long-distance one-way telephone call over a distance of about 6 miles, between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You!

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Bell first successfully transmits speech, saying “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you!”

The Horse Does Not Eat Cucumber Salad

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Johann Reis transfers voice electrically over a distance of 340 feet with his Reis telephone, using the phrase “The horse does not eat cucumber salad” as an example to prove that speech can be recognized at the receiving end because this phrase is hard to understand acoustically in German.

Alexander Graham Bell

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On the backs of other inventors, Alexander Graham Bell is awarded a patent for his telephone device.

Anthony Meucci

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In 1856, Italian inventor Anthony Meucci developed a form of electromagnetic telephone to communicate from his laboratory to a bedroom in his house. He is often credited with inventing the telephone before Alexander Graham Bell.

First Transcontinental Telephone Call

Almon Strowger

Bell Telephone Company

First Experimental Telephone Exchange

Elisha Gray

Bell’s Photophone

First Two-Way Long Distance Call

First One-Way Long Distance Call

Mr. Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You!

The Horse Does Not Eat Cucumber Salad

Alexander Graham Bell

Anthony Meucci

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