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.

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

Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

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 ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

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 ...

Thanks to various improvements in telephone technology, we have almost instant communication with not only our neighbors but also others throughout the world. But consider the telephone system of the ...

On this day 107 years ago in 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call was made between New York City and San Francisco. The call was part of an advertising campaign by the American Telephone ...