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 ...

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell ... huge undertakings: Bell spent decades trying to breed sheep with more than two nipples. INSIDE THE MIND OF AN INVENTOR While still working on the telephone, Bell grew ...