On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...
As Peter Amstein squeezes through a warren of equipment racks draped with wire and crammed with whirring machines, he offers a cheerful warning. "There are exposed electrical terminals, probably ...
The first functional telephone was created by Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), who was granted a patent by the US Patent Office on March 7, 1876. It is said that Bell's first ...