On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the ...

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 ...

(CBS DETROIT) - On March 10, 1876, the world's first telephone call was made. Graham was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847 and went on to become an expert in sound and public speaking, according to ...

March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among other machines) is the extensive work that Alexander Graham Bell did with the ...

He invented a world-changing acoustic device that allows us to send our voices over great distances, but what did telephone creator Alexander Graham Bell's voice sound like? His last living relative ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

If we were to somehow pull a Bill & Ted and nab Alexander Graham Bell out of the time-space continuum to bring with us back to 2011, he probably wouldn’t even recognize that the tiny Apple-stamped ...

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