Technology over time with phones By allyoldenkamp Mar 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call ever on the very first telephone. Aug 10, 1876 Bell makes the world's first ever long-distance telephone call. It was over a distance of 6 miles. Between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada. Oct 9, 1876 Bell makes the first two-way long-distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts. Mar 4, 1877 Emile Berliner invents a microphone based on "loose contact" between two metal electrodes Nov 12, 1877 The first commercial telephone company enters telephone business in Friedrichsberg close to Berlin using the Siemens pipe as ringer Jan 28, 1878 The first commercial North American telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut. Jan 16, 1879 The Bell Telephone Company is near bankruptcy and desperate to get a transmitter to equal Edison's carbon transmitter. Oct 21, 1915 First transmission of speech across the Atlantic Ocean by radiotelephone from Arlington, Va. to Paris, France.