Posts Tagged ‘Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company’

14th January
2011
written by Richard

Lieutenant Philip Reade, Officer in Charge, Signal Service, U.S.A. at San Diego, returned to the city yesterday, after a brief trip to San Francisco, bringing with him a telephone . . .

Less than two years after Alexander Graham Bell’s successful invention of the telephone, the mysterious hand gadget appeared in San Diego. Here’s the story of San Diego’s First Telephones.