“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 ...

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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, ...

From our beginnings in 1876, AT&T has been connecting people to the things that matter most. We will continue providing an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the ...