THIS book covers most of the ground relating to telephony from its earliest stages to the present time. It may, indeed, be regarded as a “Short History” of telephony, and, as a matter of fact ...

THE name Alexander Graham Bell is synonymous with the invention that changed human communication forever. But was he really ...

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell did so and patented the first telephone. An animation is used to show how electromagnets are used in this invention. The social reasons behind the slow adoption of ...

When Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibited their telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Henry saw to it that the invention received the Certificate of Merit. Even at the ...

There are now claims that Antonio Meucci developed a working telephone before Bell. We dig into the history behind the invention with John Schmidt, author of On This Day in Chicago History.

The invention of the telephone and how it changed society. videoThe invention of the telephone and how it changed society A description of the major scientific invention of the telephone by ...

AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the invention of the telephone, but those patents expired at the end of the 1800s. As other miniphone companies began to ...

“I, myself, am not so very old yet, but I can remember the days when there were no telephones,” said the inventor of the telephone to thunderous applause. As America’s entry into World War I ...

Can you imagine if Ben Franklin didn’t discover electricity or if Alexander Graham Bell didn’t discover the telephone?