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Alexander Graham Bell Lab artifacts. Inside the lobby of the Verizon Building fronting the south side of Post Office Square. The lab was removed from 109 Court Street. ( see below, new location ) Some say Bell stole the key idea behind the invention of the telephone from Elisha Gray.

Artifacts recovered from Alexander Graham Bell’s Laboratory in Boston, now on display just off the lobby in the Verizon Building, Boston.

The Alexander Graham Bell Boston lab is long gone, but Verizon has them on display. There is also an impressive 360 degree mural depicting communications history in the lobby, though photography is forbidden in the lobby, they have a free color reproduction for those interested. Bell was very inventive but many folks think the phone was the invention of Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci but you knew that.

 

This collection is now located @

JFK Buildings at City Hall Plaza

(Opposite 1 Center Plaza)

1 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108

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Uploaded on April 13, 2008
Taken on July 16, 2002