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On This Day, March 7: Alexander Graham Bell gets 1st telephone patent
- On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted the US patent for the telephone, an event commemorated as 150 years ago today.
- Bell's family work on elocution and Visible Speech, plus family deafness, influenced his research while teaching at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf in Boston.
- In the patent race, Bell reached the patent office on March 7, 1876, and three days later transmitted 'Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you.' to Thomas Watson.
- The patent launched commercialization, with Bell co-founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, which had more than 150,000 users by 1886 despite Western Union calling it a 'toy'.
- Over time, the telephone's diaphragm, coil and receiver enabled real-time voice calls, evolving into dial phones and over 8.58 billion mobile subscriptions in 2022.
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History's most consequential "come here" was uttered 150 years ago this week. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell stood in a Boston lab and spoke nine plain words to his assistant, Thomas Watson—"Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you"—that became the first clearly understood sentence...
World marks 150 years since first-ever phone call
Tuesday marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell completed the first-ever phone call. Bell used a copper wire connection to speak the famous words — “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you” — and establish a form of communication that persists today via fiber-optic systems, even as texts have surpassed calls in popularity. That calling has survived myriad technological upheavals shows “how profoundly it changed society,” the CTO of AT&T, the…
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Yonkers TimesAT&T Celebrates 150 years of Connecting on the Anniversary of the First Telephone Call
/PRNewswire/ -- The first phone call sparked the creation what is now the largest advanced converged network that connects Americans to the internet faster...
Exactly 150 years ago in Boston, the first telephone call was made by the Scottish inventor Alexander Bell.
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