In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image