Factoid - Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the first time that discernable speech was transmitted over a telephone system, according to History.com. The inaugural telephone call, shared by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, took place across two adjacent rooms in their Boston laboratory. While revolutionary, the technology was not widely adopted for several decades. About 600,000 phones were registered to Bell's telephone system in 1900, compared to 5.8 million in 1910.
Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 @ 11:07 AM

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