On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell gave a preview demonstration of “Telephone Over Wire” from Brooklyn, N. Y., to the St. Denis Hotel at Eleventh Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, New York City.

On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell gave a preview demonstration of “Telephone Over Wire” from Brooklyn, N. Y., to the St. Denis Hotel at Eleventh Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, New York City.