On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While trying to improve the telegraph, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell discovered that the voice could be ...

On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the ...

DALLAS — Read this story and more North Texas business news from our content partners at the Dallas Business Journal. Modern communication began with nine words: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see ...

If we asked you to name Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention, you would doubtless say “the telephone”; it’s probably the only one of his many, many inventions most people could bring to mind. If ...