On This Day in Telephone History May 25TH 1876 Alexander Graham Bell lectured on telephony before MIT Society of Arts in Boston. “Prof. A. Graham Bell read a paper, illustrated by several experiments, on ‘telephony,’ or the telegraphing of musical sounds” – quotation from MIT’s Institute Archives and Special Collections of the Society’s handwritten minutes. Also listed in Bern Dibner’s Heralds of Science as one of the 200 most important publishing events in the history of science and technology.
