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The first transcontinental telephone call was submitted by a telephone of this type on January 25, 1915. Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, talked from Jekyll Island, Georgia, to Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, in New York; Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Bell, in San Francisco; and President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C.
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Jekyll Island, Georgia · United States
