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.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “THE STORY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL”)
DON AMECHE: (As Alexander Bell) This is Alexander Bell speaking to you from 5