who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound. Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes the image of an old-school inventor, sleeves rolled up, fiddling with wires ...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. This is another master stroke for the scientific community of the day.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany ...

According to the mots recent estimations, around 85% of the world’s population owns a smartphone or landline telephone - that’s 8.31 billion people who are able to communicate thanks to the ...

Can’t imagine a day without your phone? You have Alexander Graham Bell to thank for that. He invented the first telephone on March 7, 1876 nearly 150 years ago. To honour his contributions to ...

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches, let's take a closer look at how the iconic inventor cemented himself in the history ...

Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the famous words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." However ...

If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher ...

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell came from a family where communication was more than just talking—it was a science ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among ...