On October 9, 1876, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson conducted the first two-way ...

The book, out this fall, explores the evolution of the phone, from a newfound technology to an essential everyday item James Gleick's The Telephone explores the unsung history behind one of today's ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

These days cellphones are basically extensions of our bodies, so it might be hard to imagine life without them. But the world’s first telephone call — or, more specifically, the first time a ...