Technology History | AT&T — The Rooms at 5 Exeter Place
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Technology History | AT&T — The Rooms at 5 Exeter Place
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People treat AT&T as a Dallas campus and a long-distance name that arrived already national.
The first complete sentence by telephone was spoken here, at 5 Exeter Place in Boston, on 10 March 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell called to Thomas Watson two rooms away: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." The lodging house is gone. The site is now on Avenue de Lafayette at Harrison, marked by a tablet the Bostonian Society and New England Telephone set in 1916.
The principle had already been heard on 2 June 1875 in a fifth-floor garret at 109 Court Street, when Watson plucked a stuck reed and Bell heard the twang on the other wire.
Bell, Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders formed the Bell Telephone Company in Boston on 9 July 1877. American Telephone and Telegraph was incorporated on 3 March 1885 as the long-distance subsidiary. AT&T became the parent in 1899.
What you can still see is a plaque on a later building. The first room was a boarding-house workshop, not a tower.
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