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The
BIRTH and BABYHOOD
OF THE
TELEPHONE
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 54506 ***
by
Thomas A. Watson
Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
(An address delivered before the Third Annual Convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America at Chicago, October 17, 1913)
Information Department
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Thomas A.
Watson
1854-1934
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Biography of
THOMAS A. WATSON
Thomas A. Watson was born on January 18, 1854, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died December 13, 1934, at more than four-score years.
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At the age of 13 he left school and went to work in a store. Always keenly interested in learning more and in making the most of all he learned, every new experience was to him, from his childhood on, an opening door into a larger, more beautiful and more wonderful world.
This was the key to the continuous variety that gave interest to his life.
In 1874 he obtained employment in the electrical shop of Charles Williams, Jr., at 109 Court St