Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when ...

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!" Alexander Graham Bell’s famous request to his assistant came on March 10, 1876, just days after his telephone patent was granted. Bell demonstrated his ...

Bell Telephone was founded by Alexander Graham Bell a year after he'd invented the telephone. That year the company set up the first private phone line: between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts.

Today, I carry a flip phone in my handbag, strictly for use in emergencies. Friends have told me I am woefully behind the times and should upgrade to a newer model with all the bells and whistles.

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than ... INSIDE THE MIND OF AN INVENTOR While still working on the telephone, Bell grew interested in designing a flying machine. For three decades ...

Bell Labs began as the research and development section of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, or AT&T. AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the ...

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:In that moment, the telephone was born. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:It needed more work, but soon I was ready to show people what I had invented. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:It caught on ...