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The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago

Posted by kdawson on from the come-here-mister-watson dept.

magacious writes "March 10 is the 133rd anniversary of the first telephone call. It occurred between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson back on this day in 1876. But there is some debate about whether Bell is actually the rightful owner of the crown for such invention. Having worked on the idea of transmitting speech using electricity for some time, Bell filed his patent on 14 February 1876, either just before or just after his main rival for the title of inventor of the telephone, Elisha Gray, filed his own. Bell won the patent and Gray died in obscurity."

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  1. Re:Such advances! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    More like "can you hear me? CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO?? *beep*beep*beep* Ah f**ing Verizon!"

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  2. and the second call by petes_PoV · · Score: 5, Funny

    started "can I speak to Mr Alexander Bell" .... Hello Mr. Bell, how are you today. I wonder if you would take a few minutes to answer some questions ... hangs up in disgust

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  3. Re:133 by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    is such an important number that it's worth a news story by its own

    But of course! It's a happy octagonal Harshad integer, and a Blum semiprime. We should read news stories about it every day!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_(number)

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