First transcontinental telephone call: Difference between revisions

Six months later, amidst the celebrations surrounding the [[Panama-Pacific Exposition]], on January 25, 1915, [[Alexander Graham Bell]], in New York City, repeated his famous statement "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you," into the telephone, which was heard by his assistant [[Thomas Augustus Watson|Dr. Watson]] in [[San Francisco]], for a long distance call of 3,400 miles. Dr. Watson replied, "It will take me five days to get there now!" The Alexander Graham Bell call officially initiated AT&T's transcontinental service.<ref name=riordan/><ref name=transtel/><ref name=PBS/><ref name=mcmaster/> The phone call was merely symbolic.<ref name=john> Dr. Watson was at 333 Grant Avenue in [[San Francisco]] to receive the first transcontinental telephone call, placed by Bell from the Telephone Building at [[195 Broadway|15 Dey Street]] in [[New York City]]. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] and the mayors of both cities were also involved in the call.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0125.html |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |title=Phone to Pacific From the Atlantic |date= }}.</ref>