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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world

Iwan Rhys Morus, Aberystwyth University “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly momentous words, but their implications were enormous. Spoken by Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell in his Boston laboratory on March 10 1876, they were the first intelligible words to be transmitted electrically through a wire from one place to another. With that, the telephone age began. Thomas Watson, Bell’s assistant, received that call only in the nex…
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News broke the news in on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
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