“Even more wonderful than the dizzy heights of the buildings is the blaze of electricity radiating from them,” National Geographic said of the New York City skyline in 1917. “People now ...

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches, let's take a closer look at how the iconic inventor cemented himself in the history books. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland ...

Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant, Thomas Watson, on March 10, 1876. Communication has evolved ever since.

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 from Russia. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ...

In fact, much of the experimentation and research to develop the first telephone happened in Boston, leading up to the world's first phone call on March 10, 1876 - 149 years ago t ...