Thomas Watson, the young mechanic in Charles Williams’s Boston electrical shop who built Alexander Graham Bell’s instruments, recalls their partnership. He describes Bell’s harmonic telegraph, his theory of transmitting speech, the experiments of June 2, 1875, the first words heard over a wire, the lectures that kept the young business alive and its early growing pains.
A charming eyewitness account of one of the great inventions, told by the man on the other end of the line. Download the free EPUB.