If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher ...

Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared ... Melville now asked Wheatstone to tell them about it. Young Alec was clearly inspired by this visit. On returning home, he and ...

Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes ... And then there was his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound.

On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with ...

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 ...

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