The phone is 150 years previous. It’s nonetheless altering all the things.

On March 10, 1876, a 29-year-old Scottish immigrant named Alexander Graham Bell sat in a modest laboratory at 5 Exeter Place in Boston and did one thing no human being had ever achieved: He spoke right into a wire, and somebody within the subsequent room heard his voice. His precise phrases, recorded in his laboratory notebook: “Mr. Watson — Come right here — I wish to see you.” His assistant, a 22-year-old mechanic named Thomas Watson, got here working.