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JAN. 25, 1915: 
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MAKES FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL PHONE CALL
On this day in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated the U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
Bell, in New York City, made a telephone call to his former associate Thomas Watson in San Francisco. 
Flip through a American Experience’s gallery of phone designs, beginning with 1877. 
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JAN. 25, 1915:

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MAKES FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL PHONE CALL

On this day in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated the U.S. transcontinental telephone service.

Bell, in New York City, made a telephone call to his former associate Thomas Watson in San Francisco. 

Flip through a American Experience’s gallery of phone designs, beginning with 1877. 

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