<P> `` On October 9 , 1876 , Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a two - mile ( 3 km ) wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston . It was the first wire conversation ever held . Yesterday afternoon the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400 - mile ( 5,500 km ) wire between New York and San Francisco . Dr. Bell , the veteran inventor of the telephone , was in New York , and Mr. Watson , his former associate , was on the other side of the continent . They heard each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty - eight years ago . '' </P>
<P> `` On October 9 , 1876 , Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a two - mile ( 3 km ) wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston . It was the first wire conversation ever held . Yesterday afternoon the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400 - mile ( 5,500 km ) wire between New York and San Francisco . Dr. Bell , the veteran inventor of the telephone , was in New York , and Mr. Watson , his former associate , was on the other side of the continent . They heard each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty - eight years ago . '' </P>
where was the first long distance phone call made
where was the first long distance phone call made
between Cambridge and Boston
between Cambridge and Boston