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Birthplace of the Telephone

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On June 2, 1875, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson first transmitted sound over wires in a successful experiment completed in a fifth floor garret at what was then 109 Court Street, marking the beginning of world-wide telephone service.
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