WASHINGTON, DC — Out of patent litigation paranoia, inventor Alexander Graham Bell donated copies of his devices and sound recordings directly to the Smithsonian. Volta Laboratory disc recording with ...

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, revolutionized communication by enabling instant long-distance ...

Nearly 300 never-before-heard recordings by inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell will be restored and made accessible later this year, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

Have you ever wondered what the voice of the telephone inventor sounded like? An unplayable recording of Alexander Graham Bell was found by Smithsonian Institution researchers in 2013 at the National ...

Residents, civic leaders and community groups filled Main Street to celebrate the city’s incorporation on March 24, 1876.

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March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...

While some predicted the landline to be obsolete by 2020, there are still about 931 million landlines around the world.

This fascinating deep dive explores the rise and fall of naval hydrofoils, from the early innovations of Alexander Graham Bell to the heavily armed Pegasus-class ships that dominated the 1980s War on ...

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