On a spring evening in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid on his trousers, called for his assistant through a contraption of wire and diaphragm, and in doing so placed the first telephone call in history.
Thomas Watson, sitting in the next room, heard the words clearly and came running.
The most consequential sentence in the history of telecommunications was a man asking for a little help.
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Episode 47: Wrong Number, The Hidden Line to Anthropic Inside SK Telecom