Alexander Graham Bell is most well known ... and later the "electrical speech machine" -- his name for the first telephone. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847.

he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared, on the great scientist's death, "But for Henry, I never would have gone ...

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!" Alexander Graham Bell’s famous request to his assistant came on March 10, 1876, just days after his telephone patent was granted. Bell demonstrated his ...

Today, I carry a flip phone in my handbag, strictly for use in emergencies. Friends have told me I am woefully behind the times and should upgrade to a newer model with all the bells and whistles.

Middle: Maude Hedley is the switchboard operator in this 1899 scene at McLaren’s store in Fortuna. Right: Ted Jennings and ...

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:Amazing to think that the device that we rigged up between those two rooms was the first ever telephone. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:And now, in your world, there are more than ...

Alexander Graham Bell hated ... Wright brothers received their patent, Bell’s kite lifted an associate to over 160 feet. In 1915 he’d made the first coast-to-coast phone call; soon after ...

When Alexander Graham Bell made that first telephone call in Boston on 7 March 1876, it was a development of a technology already in place. The telegraph, introduced in 1837, had already speeded ...