One Minute Before the First Telephone Call

Bell has a variable-resistance transmitter freshly filled with sulfuric-acid solution. Watson is at the receiver in the next room. Bell knocks over the battery jar. In sixty seconds he'll say the first sentence ever electrically transmitted.

Date

10 March 1876

Time

Around 4 p.m.

Location

5 Exeter Place, Boston, MA

Duration

2 min