Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

We finally know what the inventor of the telephone sounded like. Last week, the Smithsonian unveiled recordings of Alexander Graham Bell's voice... First He Invented The Phone. Then, Bell Left A Voice ...

Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New ...

If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher, or just give ...

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 ...

Nearly 300 never-before-heard recordings by inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell will be restored and made accessible later this year, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ...

Introduction -- 1. Invention in the lawyers' world -- 2. Acts of invention -- 3. The telephone case -- 4. The United States versus Bell -- 5. Atlantic crossings -- 6. Patent the Earth -- 7. Patents, ...

According to baseball-reference.com, Jaffe developed his JAWS system in 2004. There have been a number of different versions of the Hall of Fame Index that have come out in the same time frame. I ...

The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the life of President James A. Garfield. When Garfield was shot, doctors ...

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