Thomas A. Watson

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American inventor and businessperson; assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (1854-1934)

United States ScientistsLived 1854 to 1934 · aged 80

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Thomas Augustus Watson was an American inventor and assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in the invention of the telephone in 1876. Afterwards, he founded the Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company, which became a major shipyard during World War II.

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Watson in his later years, holding Bell's original telephone

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2011National Inventors Hall of Fame

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