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 ...

Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New ...

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 ...

Though he is most associated with the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell’s life and career focused mostly on the study of sound. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Bell’s work was inspired by his family. His ...

Trinity Church is finishing construction in Copley Square, while in Washington, Rutherford B. Hayes is set to become the nation’s 19th president (despite losing the popular vote). The Boston Globe ...

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, or just give ...

Until about ten years ago, nobody knew what Alexander Graham Bell sounded like. But a breakthrough came in 2013, when Smithsonian researchers recovered a previously “unplayable” recording of the ...

As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s “The ...

He invented a world-changing acoustic device that allows us to send our voices over great distances, but what did telephone creator Alexander Graham Bell's voice sound like? His last living relative ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Oh, now this is just depressing. I simply refuse to believe that aggressive lawyers and corrupt government officials were behind Alexander Graham Bell's rise to prominence. It's so unlike what came ...