Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when ...
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 ...
The first large-scale telephone conference, reminiscent of today's team calls or clubhouse sessions, took place at a time when the telephone call itself was a pioneering act. In this section ...
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (or AT&T) began as Bell Telephone in 1877. Bell Telephone was founded by Alexander Graham Bell a year after he'd invented the telephone. That year the ...