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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Bell's telephone exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.......June, 1876 Iron diaphragm first used by Bell......June 30, 1876 Edison's carbon, loud-speaking telephone invented......January, 1877 Professor Bell exhibits at the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., his telephone, using a powerful horseshoe magnet, by which a short speech, shouted into a similar telephone in Boston, 16 miles distant, is distinctly audible to an audience of 600 persons in Salem......Feb. 12, 1877 First-known telephone line connects the office of Charles Williams, electrician, in Boston, and his house in Somerville......April, 1877 First telephone exchange established in Boston, Mass......1877 One form of microphone invented by Edison......April 1, 1877 Experiments begun in Brown University by Prof. Eli W. Blake, Prof. John Pierce, and others, result in the construction by Dr. William F. Channing of the first portable telephone......April, 1877 Handle telephone, now
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unton, Josiah G. Abbot, James A. Garfield, George F. Hoar; the justices of the Supreme Court designated are Nathan Clifford, Samuel F. Miller, Stephen J. Field, and William Strong, and select Joseph R. Bradley as the fifth; in all eight Republicans, seven Democrats......Jan. 30, 1877 Three certificates from Florida referred to the electoral commission, and the vote awarded to the Republicans by 8 to 7......Feb. 9, 1877 Prof. A. Graham Bell exhibits his telephone at Salem, Mass......Feb. 12, 1877 Commission awards the electoral vote of Louisiana to the Republicans by vote 8 to 7......Feb. 16, 1877 Contested vote of Oregon counted for the Republicans by the commission, 8 to 7......Feb. 23, 1877 Political disabilities of J. E. Johnston, of Virginia, under the Fourteenth Amendment, removed by act of......Feb. 23, 1877 Senator Francis Kernan, of New York, substituted on electoral commission for Senator Thurman, physically unable to serve......Feb. 26, 1877 Contested v