Although Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the official patent for the telephone in 1876, research conveys that there were countless others who attempted to file a caveat for their own version of the ...

With the help of his father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell organized the first telephone company, The Bell Telephone Company. The company started out as a joint-stock company and was founded in Boston, ...

The development of the telephone has a long and complex past, reaching far back before the well-known electromagnetic versions. Earlier mechanical devices could already send speech and music further ...

The telephone has come a long way from Alexander Graham Bell's first words to his assistant, Thomas Watson, in 1876: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." In just five years, Joplin residents ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

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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 ...

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