January 25 in American History
Alexander Graham Bell in New York spoke to his old assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco, reenacting their first-ever phone call — this time across the entire continent. "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," Bell said. Watson replied it would now take him a week. The country had been wired coast to coast.
In 1915: the first transcontinental phone call. Alexander Graham Bell in New York spoke to his old assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco, reenacting their first-ever phone call — this time across the entire continent.
Alexander Graham Bell in New York spoke to his old assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco, reenacting their first-ever phone call — this time across the entire continent. "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," Bell said. Watson replied it would now take him a week. The country had been wired coast to coast.
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