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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell submitted a patent, on February 14, 1876, outlining a technique for transmitting sound electronically, narrowly beating rival inventor Elisha Gray, who filed a comparable claim ...

Here’s a quick history lesson: On March 10, 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell -- the man behind the telephone -- successfully made the first phone call in history. The call was to his assistant, ...

“Mr. Watson, come here, I need you.” (In some sources, “I want you.”) These were the first words spoken on the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, its inventor. The historic phone call took place on ...

Sounds scratched from the urban streets or imagined for the world under the water are mixed with a story of both fact and fiction in Telettrofono, presented by stillspotting nyc on Staten Island.

The acquisition of BellSouth Corp. by AT&T Inc. would bring more than half of the traditional telephone business back under one roof and into the company once known as “Ma Bell,” whose history dates ...

Just a few years after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention, Charles B. Hopkins installed the first telephones in the Inland Northwest. In 1884, he bought an old Army telegraph line ...

ON the 19th of March, 1888, the Supreme Court of the United States reassembled in Washington, after the usual spring vacation. It was generally expected that the long-deferred decision the telephone ...