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Show I SITE OF THE FIRST PHONE MESSAGlI h w , o i Sis i y , i ; a . ,! h K ' ' - f. i ' r r i El-: V- A-: vi :, " J r-'-ry X I It Walter S. GIfford (left), president of tho American Telephone and Tel rraph Company, and Leonard H. Kinnard (right), president of the Bell Tele-phone Tele-phone Company of Pennsylvania and Associated Companies, are showa standing on the exact spot where Alexander Graham Bell first talked over his invention at the Centennial Exposition 50 years ago. In the background can be seen Memorial Hall, relic of the Centennial, and which is now being used as a museum. It was on this spot that Don Pedro, then Emperor of Brazil, met the 29-year-old inventor and exclaimed, "My God, it talks!" when he heard Bell's voice come over the wire. The exhibits to be staged by the organization these men represent will be one of the great features of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, which opens in Philadelphia June 1 and continues to December 1 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. |