The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @09:01PM 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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Significant aniversaries by psb777 · 2009-03-10 21:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

Please remind us next year again, as 134 is a highly significant number for me.

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Re:133 by Godwin+O'Hitler · 2009-03-11 00:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

It is indeed, and it got me thinking are there any other important 133rd anniversaries coming up we should know about?

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