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Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, notably in the invention of the telephone in 1876. Life and work. Watson in his later years, holding Bell's original telephone.
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Thomas Augustus Watson was an American telephone pioneer and shipbuilder, one of the original organizers of the Bell Telephone Company, who later turned to shipbuilding and constructed a number of vessels for the United States government.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Becoming The Assistant of Alexander Graham Bell
- Manufacturer of The First Telephone
- Watson as Entrepreneur
- The First Transcontinental Phone Call
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, as the son of a livery stable, Watson dropped out of school at 14 and became a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston. There he helped build some rudimentary machines per the design of Alexander Graham Bell, at that time was a teacher of deaf m...
Thomas A. Watson has been largely forgotten by history, but he, of course, had constructed and installed both machines for that historic conversation, and early accounts of the telephone’s invention routinely noted that it was the collaborative work of Bell and Watson, with Watson credited as “manufacturer of the first telephone“. Yet Watson was a ...
Like Bell, Watson had no desire to work in the telephone business once the device was a reality. Watson resigned from the Bell Telephone Company in 1881 at the age of 27. The first order of business was a long vacation in Europe, then marriage. Using money from his royalties from his participation in the invention of the telephone, Watson first tri...
On January 25, 1915, Watson was at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco to receive the first transcontinental telephone call, placed by Bell from the Telephone Building at 15 Dey Street in New York City. By then more than 13,000,000 telephones were in use worldwide.[3,8] In 1920, Watson visioned telephone conversations across the Atlantic Ocean as “on...
Thomas A. Watson has 50 books on Goodreads with 27163 ratings. Thomas A. Watson’s most popular book is Sanctioned Catastrophe (Dark Titan, #1).
Thomas A Watson was born in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 1970, and grew up in Doyline, Louisiana and Grenada, Mississippi. He was the assistant manager of W.C. Plastics in Grenada Mississippi for several years before joining the U.S Army, he was stationed at Bad Hersfeld, Germany.
by Thomas A. Watson. 4.76 · 319 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 2016 · 2 editions. The Blues are rapidly reproducing; growing more in…. Want to Read. Rate it: The Fall (Blue Plague, #1), Survival (Blue Plague, #2), Sacrifice (Blue Plague, #3), Rage (Blue Plague #4), Decisions (Blue Plague, #5), War (Blue Plagu...
