Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.

Author of Learning to Live Again, My Triumph Over Cancer based on articles for The New York Times and The Politics of Food. From 2008 to 2017, Adjunct Research Assistant, Department of Architectural ...

On February 14th, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell got his name put in the history books when he beat fellow inventor Elisha Gray to the patent office with his new creation, the telephone. And while the ...

The phone is one of humanity's most revolutionary inventions, transforming the way humans talk to each other from far away and defining the evolution of contemporary society. Yet who was responsible ...

It turns out that it wasn’t Alexander Graham Bell, but one Antonio Meucci, “An erratic, sometimes brilliant Florentine inventor,” who invented the telephone. In that one statement, “The Book of ...

It's always fun to learn quirky or unusual facts about a state, isn't it? Well, the Bay State is no exception. From the ...

On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell successfully used his telephone invention for the first time when he called for his assistant Thomas Watson, who was in another room: " Mr. Watson. Come here.

ONTONAGON, Mich. (WILX) - On this day in 1879, Michigan’s first independent telephone company was formed. The Ontonagon ...

IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was published in ...