In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell did so and patented the first telephone. An animation is used to show how electromagnets are used in this invention. The social reasons behind the slow adoption of ...

We were taught in school that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. But there are some things even school doesn't ...

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone ... out how to transmit a simple current first, and received a patent for that invention on March 7, 1876.

Stolen Science," was written to finally set the record straight about scientists and inventors who never received the credit they deserved.