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10/03/1876 "Mr. Watson, come here!"

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This Is Alexander Graham Bell's Voice

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The First Phone Call - Decades TV Network

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AT&T Archives: The First Call

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The First Telephone

American innovator Alexander Graham Bell made the first call by his new invention, the telephone. He called his assistant Thomas A. Watson. He said: “Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. — I want to see you.” Bell himself, however, considered his invention intrusive and refused to have the telephone in his study.