Charles Williams, Jr.
Theodore Newton Vail
Thomas A. Watson
Bell collaborator and co-founder
American Bell Telephone · Bell Telephone · Charles Williams Jr. Shop | Associates: Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, Emile Berliner, Francis Blake, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas S. Sanders, Theodore Newton Vail, Charles Williams, Jr.
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1874
Thomas Augustus Watson (January 18, 1854 – December 13, 1934) was an American inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in the invention of the telephone in 1876. Afterwards, he founded the Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company, which became a major shipyard during World War II.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, United States, Watson was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston in 1872. He was then hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who was then a professor at Boston University.
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