Invention of the Telephone National Historic Event
Brantford, Ontario
Home of the invention of the telephone
© Office National du Film du Canada | National Film Board of Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada | Library and Archives Canada
Address :
94 Tutela Heights Road, Brantford, Ontario
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1934-05-28
Dates:
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1876 to 1876
(Significant)
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1874 to 1874
(Significant)
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1876 to 1876
(Significant)
Other Name(s):
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Invention of the Telephone
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
2015-CED-SDC-01
Importance:
Bell experiments with telephone, site of first long-distance call in 1876
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: 94 Tutela Heights Road, Brantford, Ontario
Even here at his father's home where he came for rest and peace, Alexander Graham Bell continued to ponder the elusive secret of voice transmission; and it was here, on 26 July 1874, that insight finally came and the fundamental principle of the telephone was conceived. Here also, on 3 and 4 August, 1876, Bell made public demonstrations of his now patented invention, culminating in the world's first long distance call, to Paris, 13 kilometres away, on 10 August.