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unusual facts about Thomas Augustus Watson



First transcontinental telephone call

Six months later, amidst the celebrations surrounding the Panama-Pacific Exposition, on January 25, 1915, Alexander Graham Bell, in New York City, repeated his famous statement "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you," into the telephone, which was heard by his assistant Dr. Watson in San Francisco, for a long distance call of 3,400 miles.


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