On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

1876 was already an eventful year. In March, Melvil Dewey acquired copyright for his eponymous decimal system for organizing books. In April, the Boston Red Caps defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, setting off a communication revolution. The history of the telephone includes the first line between cities, operators, phone ...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the ...

First Phone in the World: The first phone in the world was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This groundbreaking invention allowed human voice to travel through electrical signals for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this date, 150 years ago, Boston-based inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call -- and he did it in ...

The patent for the telephone turns 150 on March 7; the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: One of the earliest ways to communicate outside of mail was the ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, and formed Bell Telephone Company, which became American Telephone & Telegraph – today's modern AT&T. Today, AT&T is leading the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - March 10, 1876. Alexander Graham Bell makes his first successful telephone call to his assistant, saying, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” This success allowed ...

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