Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Bell placed calls to Cowes, Southampton, and London, marking the first publicly witnessed long-distance telephone calls in the UK. Queen Victoria found the process extraordinary, although the sound was rather faint. This demonstration secured further recognition and validation for Bell's invention and the potential of telephone technology.
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14 January, 1878 in daily chronicle of Alexander Graham Bell