Title: Early Telephone Fun Facts
Headings: Early Telephone Fun Facts
Early Telephone Fun Facts
Content: While it’s hard to imagine life before telephones, it’s equally as interesting to learn about the telephone in its beginning years. The following are some fun facts about the telephone and its early history. Alexander Graham Bell experimented with his “harmonic telegraph” for two years before getting patented by the U.S. Patent Office. On March 10, 1876 he was able to get his phone to work. The first words spoken through a telephone were “Watson come here, I want you!” The phone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson. Heinz Ketchup was also invented in the year 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call. Mark Twain was one of the first people to have a phone in his home. Telephones grew quickly, from one phone in 1876 to 11 million phones nationwide by 1915, only in US. New York Telephone had 6,000 women telephone operators by 1910.