The inventor of the first functional telephone didn’t come up with his invention with a stroke of luck, but through thorough preparation and study.

Alexander Graham Bell lived during an era of extraordinary technological transformation, yet his advice feels even more ...

Have you ever wondered what the voice of the telephone inventor sounded like? An unplayable recording of Alexander Graham Bell was found by Smithsonian Institution researchers in 2013 at the National ...

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, ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While trying to improve the telegraph, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell discovered that the voice could be ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

Alexander Graham Bell's telephone invention was not a lucky accident. He and his assistant Thomas Watson were already conducting detailed experiments to transmit speech over wires. Bell had patented ...

If we were to somehow pull a Bill & Ted and nab Alexander Graham Bell out of the time-space continuum to bring with us back to 2011, he probably wouldn’t even recognize that the tiny Apple-stamped ...

The stuffy confines of the United States Patent Office could scarcely have presented a less romantic Valentine’s Day setting. But on the morning of February 14, 1876, amid the thrum of clerks busying ...

By 1880, Lewis Latimer had become known as an American inventor on the cutting edge of technology.

Click to open image viewer. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born inventor, scientist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, lived for many years in Washington, D.C., and died in Cape Breton, ...