The inventor had to be persuaded to make the trip from Boston, then balked at the thought of a delay in debuting his device. But history interceded, and his American innovation got its proper accolade ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

Although Alexander Graham Bell is widely accepted as the father of the telephone (despite the fact that rival inventor Elisha Gray submitted a similar claim the same day Bell filed his patent), ...

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.

“Mr. Watson, come here,” were the infamous words uttered by Alexander Graham Bell when he made his first successful phone call on March 10, 1876. It happened in Boston, at a boardinghouse at 5 Exeter ...

March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...

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 ...

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

Today's quote of the day is widely quoted as having been said by Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish-born inventor best remembered for giving the world the telephone. The line reads, "The only ...

The Coalition to Save Landlines is urging the public to order a landline before the deadline. The value of the landline ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of two telephones used by ...