ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:It caught on, and it was a great success. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:Amazing to think that the device that we rigged up between those two rooms was the first ever telephone.

Alexander Graham ... race between Bell and his biggest rival, Elisha Gray. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat (a sort of placeholder for a patent) for a voice transmission device.

Alexander Graham ... (the device he described in an 1892 article resembled the helicopter invented 40 years later). The year after the Wright brothers received their patent, Bell’s kite lifted ...

Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared ... the scientist briskly turned him away. The device, once the object of Henry's fascination, ended up instead on display in a small ...

When Alexander Graham Bell introduced his telephone ... Even phone companies worried about whether the device created new forms of rude behavior; a 1910 Bell ad warned about “Dr. Jekyll and ...

Bell Labs began as the research and development section of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, or AT&T. AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the ...

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention ... Thomas Edison then worked with his team to develop a device that trumped Bell’s, the carbon-button transmitter, just a few months ...