Here’s a quick history lesson: On March 10, 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell -- the man behind the telephone -- successfully made the first phone call in history. The call was to his assistant, ...
Suffice it to say, Bell’s early phones did not resemble anything particularly recognizable to our contemporary eyes. Models from the period feature mouthpieces of varying sizes, drum-like parts and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the ...
1876 was already an eventful year. In March, Melvil Dewey acquired copyright for his eponymous decimal system for organizing books. In April, the Boston Red Caps defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in ...
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 ...
This article was originally published in B.U. Bridge, Vol. V No. 5, on September 14, 2001. It has been updated. A BU professor created a device 150 years ago that “annihilated time and space,” Thomas ...
Click to open image viewer. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born inventor, scientist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, lived for many years in Washington, D.C., and died in Cape Breton, ...
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