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 ...

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 ...

According to the mots recent estimations, around 85% of the world’s population owns a smartphone or landline telephone - that’s 8.31 billion people who are able to communicate thanks to the ingenuity ...

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BOSTON – A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone ...

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, ...

It’s easy to take for granted just how much the invention of the telephone changed cultural norms. For instance, take the art of eavesdropping. As Mark Twain wrote in our June 1880 issue, “I consider ...

It was only 135 years ago, today, that Alexander Graham Bell was awarded his patent for the telephone. And here we have one of his first sketches of the magical device. To this day, it’s unsure if he ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Bell’s audio recording was made on an old experimental wax disk that he later donated to the ...

“Mr. Watson, come here,” were the infamous words uttered by Alexander Graham Bell when he made his first successful phone call on March 10, 1876. It happened in Boston, at a boardinghouse at 5 Exeter ...

Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends ...