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 ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when ...

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL was born in South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on March 3, 1847, the son of Alexander Melville Bell, who was a lecturer in elocution at the University, and whose father ...

Bell Telephone was founded by Alexander Graham Bell a year after he'd invented the telephone. That year the company set up the first private phone line: between Boston and Somerville, Massachusetts.

Bell Labs began as the research and development section of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, or AT&T. AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the ...

We were taught in school that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But there are some things even school doesn't want you to know. Who really invented the telephone?