The Almanac

March 10

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1876

    The first words spoken by telephone

    In a Boston workshop, Alexander Graham Bell spoke into his experimental device and his assistant, Thomas Watson, heard him clearly in the next room. The telephone had carried its first full sentence, and everyday conversation would no longer be bound to a single room.

    Source: Wikipedia

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