Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant.
His landlady complained about the excessive
noise he was making during the early versions of the telephone.
So he invented the phone booth – sort of.
To cut back on the noise, he threw blankets over chairs and crawled underneath to make his calls.
Later, in 1883, he created a telephone booth with windows
and a writing desk.
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
