Can you hear me now? (Part 1 of a continuing series)

Act I

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html

March 10, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
"Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you."
(from Bell's journal)

Thomas A. Watson
"Amazing, it's sounds like you are right in the next room!"
(unattributed)

*****

February 19, 2009
Laura Grace Bordeaux (in Decatur, via Internet/Skype)
"Honey, your voice keeps breaking up."

Michael Lacey (in Armenia)
"Well, dear, I'm really really far away."

End of Act I