Title: The Invention and Evolution of the Telephone
Headings: How the Telephone Was Invented
How the Telephone Was Invented
Bell's Biography
From Telegraph to Telephone
Talk With Electricity
"Mr. Watson, Come Here"
The Telephone Network Is Born
Exchanges and Rotary Dialing
Pay Phones
Touch-Tone Phones
Cordless Phones
Cell Phones
Telephone Books
9-1-1
Caller ID
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Content: They continued to work into the next year. Bell recounted the critical moment in his journal: " I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: ' Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you.' To my delight, he came and declared that he had heard and understood what I said." The first telephone call had just been made. The Telephone Network Is Born
Bell patented his device on March 7, 1876, and the device quickly began to spread. By 1877, construction of the first regular telephone line from Boston to Somerville, Massachusetts, had been completed. By the end of 1880, there were over 49,000 telephones in the United States. 1 ﻿ The following year, telephone service between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, had been established.