Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by ...

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 ...

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The telephone came to Carroll County in 1884, only eight years after Alexander Graham Bell was granted his second patent on March 7, 1876 – four days after his 29th birthday. President Rutherford B.

As Peter Amstein squeezes through a warren of equipment racks draped with wire and crammed with whirring machines, he offers a cheerful warning. "There are exposed electrical terminals, probably ...

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 ...