Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a cloudy day, with a high temperature of twenty-eight degrees.
Today is the anniversary of a extraordinary accomplishment of ingenuity and invention: on this day in 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call took place. The New York Times recalls the achievement:
On October 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a two-mile wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston. It was the first wire conversation ever held. Yesterday afternoon the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400-mile wire between New York and San Francisco. Dr. Bell, the veteran inventor of the telephone, was in New York, and Mr. Watson, his former associate, was on the other side of the continent. They heard each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty-eight years ago.
AT&T’s website gives additional background on the accomplishment.