On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a former Washington patent examiner, swore in an affidavit that he'd been bribed by an attorney for ...

Phones are integral to the everyday lives of most people, but who should be regarded as the device's mastermind? The Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell is routinely credited as the inventor of the ...

The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million. The building played an ...

Although Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the official patent for the telephone in 1876, research conveys that there were countless others who attempted to file a caveat for their own version of the ...

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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, ...

A 1900s advertisement from the New York Telephone Company touted the Bell Telephone as a way to maintain social relationships with people who were in quarantine due to illness. In May 2020, as much of ...

Cincinnati Bell’s recent plans to transform itself into a technology and entertainment provider doesn’t mean it is hanging up on phones completely. Voice service will still be a part of the company’s ...

If you’re reading this on your phone, give a nod to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. On this day 140 years ago, he made the first-ever phone call in history. Bell was sitting in the laboratory above his ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

If the automobile is emblematic of mankind’s innate desire for autonomy and independence, the phone represents our powerful need to connect with one another. Combine these two seemingly diametrically ...