WASHINGTON, DC — Out of patent litigation paranoia, inventor Alexander Graham Bell donated copies of his devices and sound recordings directly to the Smithsonian. Volta Laboratory disc recording with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trinity Church is finishing construction in Copley Square, while in Washington, Rutherford B. Hayes is set to become the nation’s 19th president (despite losing the popular vote). The Boston Globe ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have identified the voice of Alexander Graham Bell for the first time in some of the earliest audio recordings held at the Smithsonian Institution. The National Museum of ...

As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s “The ...

He invented a world-changing acoustic device that allows us to send our voices over great distances, but what did telephone creator Alexander Graham Bell's voice sound like? His last living relative ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Oh, now this is just depressing. I simply refuse to believe that aggressive lawyers and corrupt government officials were behind Alexander Graham Bell's rise to prominence. It's so unlike what came ...