On July 26, 1874, Alexander Graham Bell first described his idea for the telephone to his father at the family home in Brantford, Ontario. He then built the first telephone in Boston, Massachusetts in 1875, and in 1876, he made the first long distance call over telegraph wires from Brantford to Mount Pleasant, Ontario, three kilometres away.
Mr. Bell’s invention made it possible for people to speak to each other over long distances.
What would he think if he knew we now prefer to write, i.e., text?
The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers are at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The collection contains more than 145,000 items. A small portion is available online.
