Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago Size:S: 30 x 25cm on the corner of Gresham

on the corner of Gresham Street and Wood Street

'What Will Become of the Servant-Gals

View showing boats and barges on the water

Some of the figures are discussing the Treaty of Paris

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago Size:S: 30 x 25cm on the corner of GreshamAlexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call between New York and Chicago, USA, 1892. Scottish born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847 1922) produced the first intelligible telephone transmission on 5 June 1875. He patented the device as the telephone in 1876, beating rival inventor Elisha Gray, who had invented his own version, to the US patent office by just 2 hours. Bell embarked on a series of public demonstrations of his