On This Day in Telephone History May 18th 1877 Alexander Graham Bell delivered Chickering Hall lectures in New York City. The three days of lectures ran from the 17th to the 19th. From the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company's office on Peace Street, New Brunswick, NJ, Thomas Watson spoke and sang to Bell who was on stage at Chickering Hall. The telephone also was exhibited at the American Institute Fair, 3rd Avenue and 63rd Street, New York, from about these dates to the end of May.

On This Day in Telephone History May 18th 1877

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On This Day in Telephone History May 18th 1877 Alexander Graham Bell delivered Chickering Hall lectures in New York City. The three days of lectures ran from the 17th to the 19th. From the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company's office on Peace Street, New Brunswick, NJ, Thomas Watson spoke and sang to Bell who was on stage at Chickering Hall. The telephone also was exhibited at the American Institute Fair, 3rd Avenue and 63rd Street, New York, from about these dates to the end of May.