Photo Credit: United States patents (in public domain)

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This is a joint event with Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

On 10 March 1876, 150 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell made what is usually considered to be the first telephone call, when he spoke the words “Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you” into his experimental apparatus.

To mark this anniversary, Newcomen Midlands, in a change to the usual format of our meetings, will be showing two videos produced by the Connections Musem in Seattle, USA, that describe how Bell submitted his patent, and how his first transmitter (microphone) and receiver (earpiece) worked.

The films show the museum’s attempts to make a working replica of his original apparatus.