Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the ...

In 1849, Italian-born inventor Antonio Meucci began developing an early voice-transmission device that would later be known as the "teletrofono." Decades of experimentation, financial hardship and a ...

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.

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered for helping develop the telephone, an invention that transformed how people communicated across distance. Yet Bell himself recognised that major breakthroughs ...

Alexander Graham Bell depicted using his early telephone technology to make a call from New York to Chicago. The Print Collector/Heritage Images/Alamy “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

In 1904 Bell traveled to Genoa, Italy, to bring James Smithson's remains to the Smithsonian, the Institution he founded through his bequest. United States Statutes at Large, Volume 733, Washington, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI March 7 (UPI) -- ...