This Day, That Year – March 10

The first telephone conversation was made between the inventor, Alexander Graham Bell, and his assistant, Thomas Watson – “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” – on this day in 1879.

Did you know that:

• John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patented a pile driver on this day in 1791
• Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions on this day in 1849
• Dog spectacles – “Doggles” – were patented by Roni Di Lullo in England on this day in 1975