Joseph Henry lays the groundwork for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and the telephone goes national.

Special to the HT Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish immigrant, is credited with the invention of the telephone. He was not ...

About 150 years ago, in a small, crowded laboratory, a revolutionary moment occurred when nine simple words transmitted over a copper wire effectively ended the era of physical distance. On March 10, ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

In 1849, Italian-born inventor Antonio Meucci began developing an early voice-transmission device that would later be known as the "teletrofono." Decades of experimentation, financial hardship and a ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

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