Making a phone call from New York to California doesn't count as an extraordinary feat these days
But pretend it's 1915. A verbal conversation spanning the continent was a remarkable — almost unbelievable — achievement in technology.
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of what is often called the first transcontinental phone call, made by iconic communications inventor Alexander Graham Bell, in New York, to his assistant Thomas Watson, all the way out in San Francisco. The phone call also included President Woodrow Wilson, who was in the White House, and AT&T president Theodore Vail in Georgia Read more...
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