{"id":969,"date":"2024-12-30T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jvh.42web.io\/?p=969"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:51:05","slug":"homage-to-a-graham-bell-1976-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Homage to A. Graham Bell, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>for the 100th anniversary of the invention of the telephone<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AT&amp;T Long Lines Headquarters, Bedminster, NJ<\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMr. Watson \u2013 come here \u2013 I want to see you\u201d. With these words A. Graham Bell is credited with patenting the first practical telephone in year 1875.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The apparatus designed for \u201ctransmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically\u2026 causing electrical undulations\u201d inspired sculptor John Vassar House to communicate through a coding and decoding respectively of a transmitter and receiver forms. The sending forms therefore reach out while the receiving forms collect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">John Vassar House kept an updated list of anniversaries that he called \u201cwho\/when\u201d. This allowed him to provide new ideas and at the same time plan his proposals ahead of time so to contact possible clients in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is SK-292-1974-Watson-I-need-you.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-924\" style=\"width:452px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-2.jpeg 780w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-2-300x227.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-2-768x582.jpeg 768w\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JVH-at-installation-of-AG-Bell-1976-2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sculptor John Vassar House at AG Bell installation 1976<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for the 100th anniversary of the invention of the telephone AT&amp;T Long Lines Headquarters, Bedminster, NJ \u201cMr. Watson \u2013 come 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