The First of Scotland
The invention of the telephone, the early years of the steamboat and other great Scottish firsts.
‘Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you.’ These words, the first words to be transmitted by telephone, were uttered on March 10th, 1876 by Edinburgh-born Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the world’s first practical telephone. He went on to found the Bell Telephone Company, which became AT&T, and was a founding member of the National Geographic Society. Here are some other Scottish firsts.
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