George Bush Sr was the first to actually have dial tone and the ability to dial his own calls. Herbert Hoover was the first to have a phone on his desk, but the call needed to be connected by an operator.
Rutherford B. HayesThe first telephone was installed in the White House in 1879, which was during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.
the first telephone was installed in the white house (presidents house) (america) 1880.
Polk was president when gas lights were installed in the White House.
That would be the first deaf president.
The year was 1891. Benjamin Harrison was the president.
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Gas lights were installed in 1848 when James Polk was President.
Most sources say it was Rutherford B. Hayes. President Hayes benefitted from the new technologies of his era: he was not only the first to have a typewriter in the White House, but in 1877, he became the first to have a telephone installed.
James Madison was the President in 1809, but the first central heating system in the White House was not installed until 1837 under Martin Van Buren.
Millard Fillmore is reported to have had the first cook stove installed in the White House. Supposedly Fillmore had to teach the White House cook, who had never seen a cook stove, how to use one. When Tyler was president, a furnace ,which might be considered to be a kind of stove, was put in some tne years before the cook stove.
John Adams was the first US president to live in the White House.
Yes. He was the second US President, but the first US President to occupy the White House.
President Benjamin Harrison was the first president to use electricity in the white house. He was not fond of the convenience.