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One of the more bitter historical ironies is that no one knows what Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, sounded like. At least until now. Thanks to a 128-year-old recording and the ...

BOSTON – A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone ...

Bell Telephone was founded in 1877, one year after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. Five years later, the Bell company took control of Western Electric, an electrical equipment ...

Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends ...

“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 Exeter ...

A tax dispute in Canada has turned into a referendum on history. Alexander Graham Bell's descendants have accused a tax adjudicator of bias after he suggested Bell isn't solely responsible for ...