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 ...

There was a time when the average person’s words traveled no faster than trains or horse-delivered mail. The telegraph had already proven that electricity could carry coded messages across vast ...

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 ...

Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...

A woman at an office's phone booth taking a call with her smartphone. The first telephone received its patent in 1876 and was constructed just two years later by Alexander Graham Bell. Ever since that ...