Learn about the first phone in the world, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the first telephone message, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the more bitter historical ironies is that no one knows what Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, sounded like. At least until now. Thanks to a 128-year-old recording and the ...

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, ...

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 ...

A tax dispute in Canada has turned into a referendum on history. Alexander Graham Bell's descendants have accused a tax adjudicator of bias after he suggested Bell isn't solely responsible for ...