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March 6: Suwanee Now

Your digital to-do guide for Tuesday.

1. Weather: Sunny and mild, with a high of 51 forecast.

2. Event: The Gwinnett Board Of Commissioners will hold a regular business meeting at 2 p.m. in Lawrenceville.

3. Event: Georgia GOP Presidential Primary, 7 a.m.-7 p.m; voting at local precincts.

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4. Television: Choices include "Superstars Of Seventies Soul Live," with Patti LaBelle as host, 9 p.m., PBX.

5. Today in History: On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, 29, received a patent for his revolutionary new invention--the telephone. With the help of Thomas Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In the first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate--called the diaphragm--to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message--the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"--from Bell to his assistant. (Source: history.com.)

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Compiled by Steve Burns.


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