The First Coast-to-Coast Phone Call Went Through Georgia
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In January 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call connected New York and San Francisco, and one of the voices on that line spoke from Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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Books for this story
- In One Man’s Life (Theodore Vail biography), Albert Bigelow Paine
- The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America’s Millionaires, McCash & McCash
- Their Gilded Cage, Richard Jay Hutto
- Telephone: The First Hundred Years, John Brooks
- Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell, Charlotte Gray
- The Master Switch, Tim Wu
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