Abstract :
The 100th anniversary of the first telephoned message [??Mr. Watson, come here , I want you!??) was commemorated in Boston this past March with a two-day convocation at M.I.T., the issuancoef a commemorative stamp, and several transatlantic phone calls. One of them was made to a gathering in a reproduction of Alexander Graham Bell??s workshop in the New England Telephone Building, and originated from a meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London. The callers were Professor J.H.H. Merriman, Post Office Board Member for Technology, and Sir Albert Mumford,past President, Institutionof Electrical Engineers. The IEEE members on the receiving end were Amos E. Joel, Jr.,Past- President of the Communications Society, and Willard Groth, current Vice President of the Society. Listening in on the conversation were James Sheperd, Chairman of IEEE??s Boston Section, and members Howard Cravis and Louis Pollen of the Boston Section.
