Sat., Sept. 24, 2011                        From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

 "The experiment on August 10, 1876, made from Brantford to Paris, was the first [successful public] transmission, the first clear, intelligible transmission of speech over real line [ordinary telegraph wire] that had ever been made." 

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated on this site that the human voice could be transmitted electrically over distance. The call was seven miles (11.25 km) one-way, but the entire circuit, including a power boost from Toronto, was 68 miles (109.5km) several different voices could be identified.  

The test convinced Bell that his invention could compete successfully with the telegraph for communicating between towns.