On This Day In Telephone History January 14TH 1878, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria of England. The demonstration was performed at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Bell made the UK’s first publicly witnessed long-distance calls to London, Cowes, and Southampton. So impressed was Queen Victoria with the telephone, she offered to purchase it.

On This Day In Telephone History January 14TH 1878

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On This Day In Telephone History January 14TH 1878, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the Telephone to Queen Victoria of England. The demonstration was performed at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Bell made the UK’s first publicly witnessed long-distance calls to London, Cowes, and Southampton. So impressed was Queen Victoria with the telephone, she offered to purchase it.