Professor Bell in Lyceum Hall, Salem, addressing a party of scientific men in Boston
Massachusetts. Trial exhibition of Bell's telephone for the transmission of sound by electricity, operated between Salem and Boston, March 15th
still image
graphic
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1877
monographic
[1877 March 31]
eng
1 print : wood engraving.
Print shows the inventor Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating his experimental telephone, which had a connection between Salem and Boston, Massachusetts. Bell had given previous demonstrations in February 1877 at the same Lyceum Hall, and an overflow crowd appears in this print for the March 15th presentation.
No known restrictions on publication.
From sketches by E.R. Morse.
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1877 March 31, p. 68.
Bell, Alexander Graham,
1847-1922
Public appearances
Telephones
Massachusetts
Salem
1870-1880
Inventions
Massachusetts
Salem
1870-1880
Lecture Halls
Massachusetts
Salem
1870-1880
Illus. in AP2.L52 1877
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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