Alexander Graham Bell tells the story of his life and describes how he invented the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell's legacy may be as the inventor of the telephone, but when he was alive, he was also famous for his campaign to “cure” the deaf.

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

You can now hear that recording, among others, at a kiosk — jukebox style — in a new exhibition at the National Museum of American History titled "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the ...

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call, telling his assistant, "Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you," on this day in history, March 10, 1876.

Alexander Graham Bell's true passion, and the project he focused on his entire life and funded with his earnings from the telephone, was the education of deaf people. But according to author Katie ...

Alexander Graham Bell and his colleagues made an experimental recording on this wax and brass disc. Recorded circa 1885, an unknown speaker recites the “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy from ...

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, before ...

The inventions of Alexander Graham Bell—most famously the telephone but also methods of recording sound—have allowed people to hear each other’s voices for more than 130 years. Until now, no one knew ...

While there certainly exist words that began their linguistic lives as people's names, hello does not belong in that category. This sorry tale about the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's ...

A mere four years after patenting the telephone, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was already looking for ways to improve on his new technology. Specifically, he wanted to go wireless. Functionally ...