These phones made the first official transcontinental call 100 years ago

Making a phone call from New York to California doesn't count as an extraordinary feat these days But pretend it's 1915. A verbal conversation spanning the continent was a remarkable — almost unbelievable — achievement in technology. Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of what is often called the first transcontinental phone call, made by iconic communications inventor Alexander Graham Bell, in New York, to his assistant Thomas Watson, all the way out in San Francisco. The phone call also inc...