Thomas A. Watson
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Thomas Augustus Watson was an American inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in the invention of the telephone in 1876. Afterwards, he founded the Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company
Watson, c. 1883
Watson in his later years, holding Bell's original telephone
Bell Telephone Company
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The Bell Telephone Company was an American telecommunications company active from 1877 to 1899. It was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglom
Thomas A. Watson
…is electromagnetically drawn back and forth to strike them in rapid alternation; this device was manufactured for 60 years. Watson resigned from the Bell Telephone Company in 1881 at the age of 27. Using money from his royalties from his participation in the invention of the telephone, Watson first tried his hand at…
The master telephone patent (174465), granted March 7, 1876
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president and a trustee of the Bell Telephone Company, and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell
The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876, brought Bell international attention.
Alexander Graham Bell ceremonially inaugurating the first New York-to-Chicago telephone line in 1892