March 10th..."Watson...come here...I want you"

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 107. This time we examine the year 1876 as Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call.

 

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

  

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I3itppkgflgewupxhllk632qfpm?t=The_Year_Was

Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elisha-Gray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy

https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/the-first-published-accounts-of-the-reis-telephone-october-1861/

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell

https://www.biography.com/inventor/alexander-graham-bell

https://www.wired.com/2011/03/0310bell-invents-telephone-mr-watson-come-here/

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/mr-watson-come-here-i-want-you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBethune20092-161

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray

 

Photo: 

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/og-alexander-graham-bell-650.jpg