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Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson
1854-1934
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Alexander Graham Bell’s famous assistant, Thomas Watson, was born, raised and educated in Salem. He would play a major role in the development of the telephone company and would be granted 60 patents related to telephonic equipment. Bell himself lived in Salem from 1873-1876, and gave the first public demonstration of the telephone at the former Lyceum Hall on Church Street in 1877.
