Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1876, two young scientists worked hard, fast and eagerly in their shop in a Boston boardinghouse attic. One was Thomas Augustus Watson. The other was Alexander Graham Bell. Following Bell's instructions Watson had constructed the first crude telephone, but the results were disappointing. Sounds came over the wire, but no intelligible words...
...transmitter was made in which a diaphragm of goldbeater's skin was attached to a wire which in turn was dipped in dilute sulphuric acid. With no idea whether the transmitter was good or bad, the two experimenters installed a line connecting the front and back rooms. Watson went to the front room, took up his post at the receiver. In his excitement, Bell in the back room drenched his clothes with acid spilled froma battery. He called into the transmitter: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Trembling with jubilation Watson rushed to the back room crying...
HARVARD BELMONT HILL Cutter, l.w. r.w., Butcher Roberts, c. c., Eaton Weeks, f.w. l.w., Wheeler Allen, l.d. r.d., Carstein Emerson, r.d. l.d., Dewey Watson, g. g., Rice HARVARD BELMONT HIGH Nesmith, l.w. r.w., Maloon Mochem, c. c., Nay Pope, r.w. l.w., Olive Russell, l.d. r.d., Grotjohan Eaton, r.d. l.d., Thurston Morey, g. g., Morris...
Harvard Club of Fairmont, W. Va. Inquire of James O. Watson, Secretary, Watson Bldg., Fairmont...
Near Quitman, Miss., Sanders Moss forbade Floyd Watson to court his daughter. Angered, Suitor-Reject Watson shot & killed Mother Moss, Father Moss, Daughter Moss, Nephew Moss, then wounded a fifth Moss and two companions...