38. FIRSTS: The First Presidential Phone Call

<p>The first presidential phone call took place in Rhode Island, when Alexander Graham Bell called 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes as he attended a clambake at Rocky Point Park. </p><p>To Visit: Rocky Point Ave. | Nothing to see but a sign, but you can stand where the first Presidential phone call took place, if that’s a thing you want to do. </p><p><i>Episode Source Material: </i></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hayes-has-first-phone-installed-in-white-house">Rutherford B. Hayes has first phone installed in White House</a></li><li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/27/clambake-slurs-phone-sex-long-strange-history-presidential-calls/">A clambake, slurs and phone sex: The long, strange history of presidential calls</a></li><li><a href="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/notebook.html">American RadioWorks - The President Calling</a></li><li><a href="http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=190">Alexander Graham Bell and Rhode Island</a></li><li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2008/03/dayintech-0310/">March 10, 1876: 'Mr. Watson, Come Here ... '</a></li><li><a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/speech-transmitted-by-telephone">First speech transmitted by telephone - HISTORY</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2016/03/10/first-telephone-call/">TBT: When the First Telephone Call Was Made</a></li><li><a href="https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0250">Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Blake, Eli Whitney</a></li><li><a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/magbell.38000101/?sp=2&st=text">Image 2 of Speech by Alexander Graham Bell, November 2, 1911</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone">History of the telephone</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy">Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy</a></li><li><a href="https://historythings.com/elisha