Happy birthday to the telephone — oh, how you’ve grown in 150 years!

These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell’s famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876.

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These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies, but the world’s first telephone call was made 150 years ago today. WBUR’s Andrea Shea has more about that momentous voice transmission from the city where it happened.

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