The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone
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The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone

By Thomas A. Watson
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Table of Contents
  • The BIRTH and BABYHOOD OF THE TELEPHONE
  • Biography of THOMAS A. WATSON
    • The Williams’ Electrical Workshop
    • Studies and Experiments
    • Experience with Inventors
    • The “Harmonic Telegraph”
    • Bell’s Theory of Transmitting Speech
    • June 2, 1875
    • The Telephone Born
    • Realization
    • The First Telephone Line
    • Mr. Watson Heard the First Sentence Ever Spoken Over the Telephone
    • The Centennial Exposition
    • Experimentation
    • “Talking” from Boston to Cambridge
    • Our Many Visitors
    • A “Wireless Telephone”
    • Telephone Installations
    • Financial Problems
    • Leasing Instruments a Far-Sighted Policy
    • Telephone Lectures
    • My Telephone Entertainers
    • First Sound-Proof Booth
    • “The Supposititious Mr. Watson”
    • An Exhibition in Lawrence
    • Waiting for Watson
    • WAITING FOR WATSON
    • My Last Public Appearance
    • The “Gower-Bell” Telephone
    • Developing a Calling Apparatus; the Watson “Buzzer”
    • “Williams’ Coffins”
    • The Blake Transmitter
    • Wire Troubles
    • Memories
    • The Coming of Theodore N. Vail
    • The Bell System
    • Turning to Other Activities
    • My Greatest Pride
    • Early Chronology of the Telephone
    • Telephone Milestones
    • BELL SYSTEM STATISTICS
    • Footnotes
  • Transcriber’s Notes
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