Alexander Graham Bell's telephone invention was not a lucky accident. He and his assistant Thomas Watson were already conducting detailed experiments to transmit speech over wires. Bell had patented ...

While the smartphone patent wars have captivated recent legal news cycles, a much more controversial telephone war occurred in the late 1870s and 1880s based on a strange and curious fact – Alexander ...

April 25 th is National Telephone Day, when the long and storied history of the telephone is celebrated. While it is commonly known that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, the phone ...

IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was published in ...