Why Is 911?

Why Is 911? In November 1967, the FCC met with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to find a means of establishing a universal emergency number that could be implemented quickly. In 1968, AT&T announced that it would establish the digits 9-1-1 (nine-one-one) as the emergency code throughout the United States. Why is 911

How Far Could The First Telephone Reach?

How Far Could The First Telephone Reach? 10 August 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the world’s first long-distance telephone call, one-way, not reciprocal, over a distance of about 6 miles, between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada. How much did the first telephone cost in 1876? Not just anybody could buy a DynaTAC phone: the phone