All posts tagged "Alexander Graham Bell"
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11.4K1Business and LaborThe Rise and Fall of the Fore River Shipyard
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
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17.4K2ConnecticutThe Tariffville Disaster Inspires the First Emergency Phone Call
The Tariffville disaster, a train wreck near Hartford, prompted the first-ever emergency telephone call when a doctor summoned help from a local...
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41.0K8MassachusettsThe Deaf Vineyarders Who Talked With Their Hands
During the 19th century, deaf Vineyarders made up a disproportionate number of people born on the island in southeastern Massachusetts. One in...
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16.9K4Business and LaborHold Please: George Coy Launched the First Commercial Telephone Exchange
In January of 1878, George Coy of New Haven, Conn., gave birth to a new American tradition – the wrong number. Butt...
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24.2K9Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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20.9K9MassachusettsAlexander Graham Bell Takes Up Medicine
The brilliant inventor Alexander Graham Bell found his greatest success with the telephone,. But perhaps his highest profile effort at inventing came...
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