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The Wichita Eagle

  • murdock
  • 1872
  • 1922

David and Ruth Adeny

    Rotary Centennial Sculpture

    honors Rotary International’s commitment to the children of the world as exemplified by three outstanding Rotary District 6780 leaders, William T. Sergeant, who headed Rotary’s global polio...

    honors Rotary International’s commitment to the children of the world as exemplified by three outstanding Rotary District 6780 leaders, William T. Sergeant, who headed Rotary’s global...

    • knoxville
    • statue
    • park
    • tennessee

    First Intelligible Voice Transmission Over Electric Wire, 1876

    Here Alexander Graham Bell transmitted to Thomas Augustus Watson the first complete and intelligible sentence by telephone March 10, 1876 The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and...

    Here Alexander Graham Bell transmitted to Thomas Augustus Watson the first complete and intelligible sentence by telephone March 10, 1876 The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and...

    • boston
    • telephone
    • ieee milestone

    The Honorable Harold Washington, Chicago's First Black Mayor