Think the 1800s were primitive? Discover 18 technologies from the Victorian era that were decades ahead of their time.

Alexander Graham Bell's iconic quote about life, opportunity and perspective continues to resonate in today’s fast-changing ...

A journey through the history of a patent that was born to shorten distances and has ended up defining our way of living and ...

“It will never catch on!” When the first mobile telephone, invented in the 1970s by John Mitchell, an engineer at Motorola, appeared, it was initially derided as too cumbersome, heavy, and with a ...

What does his wife's illness have to do with the invention of the telephone? What was Meucci's relationship with Giuseppe Garibaldi, the leader of Italian unification? Discover this and other ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, setting off a communication revolution. The history of the telephone includes the first line between cities, operators, phone ...

About 150 years ago, in a small, crowded laboratory, a revolutionary moment occurred when nine simple words transmitted over a copper wire effectively ended the era of physical distance. On March 10, ...

Alexander Graham Bell depicted using his early telephone technology to make a call from New York to Chicago. The Print Collector/Heritage Images/Alamy “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly ...

Cincinnati was one of the first cities to have telephone service, just a year after Alexender Graham Bell introduced the new device. The company formerly known as Cincinnati Bell (now Altafiber) ...

The patent for the telephone turns 150 today, the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: One of the earliest ways to communicate outside of mail was the telegraph, ...