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  The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
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  They were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell when he made the first call to his assistant, Thomas Watson saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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  The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint-stock Gardiner Greene Hubbard,company, is organized by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law.
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  St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
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  The first rotary dial telephones in the Bell System were installed in Norfolk, Virginia.