"Mr. Watson, Come Here"
1875 AD
1875 1875
71.07W42.25N
SCI

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
	Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, always had an interest in sound.  His father taught deaf mutes to speak and Alexander himself taught music and speech.
	After moving with his family to North America from Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell opened a school in Boston for teachers of the deaf.
	Because of his interest in sound, Bell performed experiments in electrically transmitting sound over distances, and at age 27 he had worked out the basic principles and obtained a patent.  Then, in the summer of 1875, Bell communicated to his assistant Thomas Watson the first intelligible message over an electrical wire: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!"
	The story is told that later in his life, Bell continued performing scientific experiments, but much to his annoyance he was often disturbed -- by his own invention, the telephone.