The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone

** "The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone" by Thomas Augustus Watson is a recounting of the early days of the telephone, told from the perspective of Alexander Graham Bell's right hand man. The book looks back to the late 1870s, a time of massive breakthroughs for telephones. Watson shares his journey from being a young worker in an electrical shop to being central to Bell's telephone experiments. He describes the setbacks and triumphs that came with creating new telephone technologies. Watson vividly remembers their important experiments, and it paints a picture of the moment he first heard Bell's voice over the wire, marking the invention of the telephone. The book captures the excitement and hard work of those early innovators who paved the way for how we communicate today. **