[b. 1847, Edinburgh, Scotland; d. 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Mar 10: Alexander Graham Bell to Watson: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”
–the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech.
[note: Antonio Meucci had filed a “patent caveat” (# 3335) in the US Patent Office six years earlier, Dec 28, 1871, describing communication of voice between two people by wire.]