Milestones:First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric
Wire, 1876 First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric
Wire, 1876Alexander Graham Bell called out to his assistant
Thomas Watson, “Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you.” This
transmission took place in their attic laboratory located in a
near here at 5 Exeter Place. The milestone plaque may be viewed
close to Lafayette Place, near where Avenue de Lafayette and
Essex Streets intersect. There is an existing historical marker
close by commemorating the site of the original laboratory where
Watson and Bell constructed their telephone equipment at 109
Court Street. A pioneer in the field of telecommunications,
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in
Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. Throughout
his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf
people. This interest led him to invent the microphone and, in
1876, his “electrical s