Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Telephone Museum in Boston Message-ID: Date: 19 Sep 89 01:55:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 389, message 7 of 8 Rushing in to the local New England Telephone building a few months ago to pay my (typically late) bill, I stumbled across an interesting telephone museum. It's in the New England Telephone building on Franklin Street in Boston -- the city where, of course, the telephone was invented. The museum is a replica of Alexander Graham Bell's garrett workshop where the famous conversation ("Mr. Watson, come here" etc.) occurred. Although the room itself is a replica -- the actual building was demolished decades ago and the street it was on no longer even exists -- most of the paraphernalia are real, including the workbench, some really odd looking gizmos, and some notebooks. Also some of Bell's early commercial equipment, which at the time was used mainly for burglar alarms. It's not worth making a special trip to Boston, but if you're here anyway, it's worth half an hour. You can't miss it -- it's just inside the main entrance of the Franklin Street building (the art deco building festooned with microwave horns). Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. campbell@bsw.com 120 Fulton Street wjh12!redsox!campbell Boston, MA 02146