An engineer demonstrates a car phone five months before the historic first call on a competing company’s commercial mobile telephone service in 1946. Bettmann via Getty Images I have a cell phone ...

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Where was Wisconsin's first telephone installed? Historians have had different opinions over the years, but it was somewhere ...

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 he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Later that day, Bell wrote to his father (as Edwin S. Grosvenor ...

The telephone came to Carroll County in 1884, only eight years after Alexander Graham Bell was granted his second patent on March 7, 1876 – four days after his 29th birthday. President Rutherford B.

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 ...

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 ...

(WHTM) — The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was facing a challenge. Since its founding in 1885, it had been expanding its network of phone lines, introducing more and more Americans ...