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The first transcontinental telephone line and the first official telephone call across it.
By Cosmos Mariner, June 19, 2016
First Transcontinental Telephone Line Marker
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| | On June 17, 1914 the First Transcontinental Telephone Line was completed at this point on the border of Nevada and Utah. Construction forces of the Bell Telephone Company of Nevada and the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company met here, . . . — — Map (db m131438) HM |
| | On June 17, 1914, AT&T erected the last of some 130,000 poles at Wendover, and the wires were spliced, joining more than 3,400 miles of telephone line. This splice connected the first telephone line from the East Coast to the West Coast across the . . . — — Map (db m226390) HM |
| | First Transcontinental Telephone call was submitted by a telephone of this type January 25, 1915. Mr. Theodore N. Vail, President American Telephone and Telegraph Company talked from Jekyll Island, Georgia to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of . . . — — Map (db m18494) HM |
Apr. 27, 2024
