Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared ... Like an actual theater show, the telephone demonstrations became more elaborate as time went on — eventually even brass bands ...

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than summertime in Washington, D.C. He usually escaped to his estate in Nova Scotia, but one year obligations forced him to stay in the humid capital.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:In that moment, the telephone was born. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:It needed more work, but soon I was ready to show people what I had invented. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:It caught on ...

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches, let's take a closer look at how the iconic inventor cemented himself in the history books. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland ...