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Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel hold hands at the water’s edge in Nova Scotia in 1898.
Bell Collection
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Portrait of the Bell family and friends on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, 1922.Photograph by Charles Martin, National Geographic
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Listen. As a native Tumblr person who has to commute to TikTok for work (I’m not kidding I’ve gotten acting and writing jobs because of that hellsite), coming back to here is like walking back inside your house with the intense, beautiful knowledge that I can tell bigots to fuck off, eat shit, and get eviscerated without hiding it behind cute codewords and asterixis or having my response to someone advocating for my murder by euthanasia taken down as bullying and the comment approved by moderators.
For example: I will burn Alexander Graham’s Bell’s fucking bones and cook potatoes in the ashes of his shit-stain legacy.
March 10th 1876: First telephone conversation
On this day in 1876, the first telephone conversation took place between Alexander Graham Bell and his lab assistant Thomas Watson. Bell had recently secured the patent for his new invention - the telephone - and three days later succeeded in making a call. He summoned Watson from the next room thus making the first, albeit very brief, telephone call. Controversy surrounds the invention of the telephone, as there have been claims that the credit for the invention in fact rests with another inventor: Elisha Gray. Gray had also been working on a device for transmitting voice messages and both filed the patent the same day, leading to speculations about who got there first. However, whether erroneously or not, Bell is the one credited for the invention of the telephone, and he and Watson share the fame as the people who made the first telephone call.
“I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: “Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you.” To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said”
- Bell’s diary entry from March 10th 1876
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