Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the ...

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.

AT&T marked the 150th anniversary of the first phone call with a major financial commitment to modern-day connectivity. In a ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons behind them are still the same. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - March 10, 1876. Alexander Graham Bell makes his first successful telephone call to his assistant, saying, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” This success allowed ...

These days cellphones are basically extensions of our bodies, so it might be hard to imagine life without them. But the world’s first telephone call — or, more specifically, the first time a ...

These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876. These ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI March 7 (UPI) ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

Professor of History, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly momentous words, but their implications were enormous. Spoken by ...

Why the telephone is the most important technology you've stopped thinking about.