Bell Telephone was founded in 1877, one year after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. Five years later, the Bell company took control of Western Electric, an electrical ...

The telephone was born in June 1875 when Bell’s assistant Thomas Watson plucked one of these reeds in his room — and it vibrated a reed in Bell’s room. Bell built a transmitter and receiver.

AT&T, once known informally as Ma Bell, is a storied American brand that goes back under a succession of names to the late 19th century, after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was ...

There are now claims that Antonio Meucci developed a working telephone before Bell. We dig into the history behind the invention with John Schmidt, author of On This Day in Chicago History.

In which case, was Alexander Graham Bell truly the ‘father of the telephone’ and if not then who invented it first? Here’s what we know. Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of ...

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell did so and patented the first telephone. An animation is used to show how electromagnets are used in this invention. The social reasons behind the slow adoption of ...

The moment — one of several bizarre episodes in the development of the telephone — was transformative for Bell and ultimately society, which is still watching his invention evolve.