Alexander Graham Bell makes a successful experiment in the transmission of sound.
June 2, 1875
He conducts the experiment in fifth-floor garret in the shop of Charles Williams Jr. near today’s 15 Sudbury Street (then 109 Court Street). In the first successful transmission of sound over a wire, Bell is able to hear the sound made by his assistant, Thomas Watson, who plucks a reed in another room. A plaque is installed at the site in 1916.*
Sources
- Boston Globe
- Krim, Robert