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English: A formal invitation to Alexander Graham Bell to inaugurate the first U.S. transcontinental telephone line, from New York to San Francisco, in 1915. The invitation was extended to Bell by Theodore Vail, then president of AT&T, the American Bell Telephone Company's successor.
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