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Flashback: The first transcontinental phone call was made from the Jekyll Island Club in 1915 - Atlanta Magazine
Good Morning America - On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. 51,131 days since the first phone call ever made, it is safe to say phones have changed
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