On This Day In Telephone History January 18TH 1854, Thomas A. Watson was born in Salem, MA. He was an expert technician at the Charles Williams. Jr., shop, 109 Court St., Boston. Watson was assigned to make apparatus for Alexander Graham Bell's experiments in late 1873. He became intimate with Bell and assisted in all pre-telephone experiments. Watson built the first gallows-type telephone and supervised the manufacture of other early telephones including the "Centennial" type, the “Camera” box and hand telephones. He was the inventor of call bells and shared in the receiver hook patent. After leaving the Bell Telephone Company he founded and was president of the Fore River Ship and Engine Company in Boston.

On This Day In Telephone History January 18TH 1854

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On This Day In Telephone History January 18TH 1854, Thomas A. Watson was Born in Salem, MA. He was an expert technician at the Charles Williams. Jr., shop, 109 Court St., Boston. Watson was assigned to make apparatus for Alexander Graham Bell’s experiments in late 1873. He became intimate with Bell and assisted in all pre-telephone experiments. Watson built the first gallows-type telephone and supervised the manufacture of other early telephones including the “Centennial” type, the “Camera” box and hand telephones. He was the inventor of call bells and shared in the receiver hook patent. After leaving the Bell Telephone Company he founded and was president of the Fore River Ship and Engine Company in Boston.