Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher ...

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than summertime in Washington, D.C. He usually escaped to his estate in Nova Scotia, but one year obligations forced him to stay in the humid capital.

Explore telephone-related items from across the Smithsonian. National Museum of American History Alexander Graham Bell Experimental Telephone National Museum of American History Telegraph Sounder and ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany ...

who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound. Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes the image of an old-school inventor, sleeves rolled up, fiddling with wires ...

Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the famous words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." However ...

such as the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Canada or the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in the United States. Mumbai News: Man Absconding For 32 Years In ...

“Mr. Watson, come here,” were the infamous words uttered by Alexander Graham Bell when he made his first successful phone call on March 10, 1876. It happened in Boston, at a boardinghouse at 5 ...

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches, let's take a closer look at how the iconic inventor cemented himself in the history books. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, before he ...