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True Story of the Birth of the Telephone Unearthed
Boston, Saturday. Thomas A. Watson, sole witness to Bell’s early experiments, recounts the 1875 harmonic telegraph era and the June 2 1875 breakthrough that linked undulatory currents to voiced speech, leading to the first intelligible telephone in March 1876 and a successful October 1876 test on a private line.
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Thomas A. Watson
Alexander Graham Bell
Boston
Mass
Braintree
Watson
Mr. Watson
Bell
Court Street
Charles Williams
Somerville
Mr. Bell
Newton
Boston University
Exeter Place
Frst
Esl
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Kilby Street
Main Street
Cambridgeport