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:I'm going to tell you something about my life. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:My name is Alexander Graham Bell. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:I was born in the year 1847, in Edinburgh.

Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared, on the great scientist's death, "But for Henry, I never would have gone ahead with the telephone." Born in 1797 in Albany ...

In fact, much of the experimentation and research to develop the first telephone happened in Boston, leading up to the world's first phone call on March 10, 1876 - 149 years ago t ...