I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons ...

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and ...

On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the way we communicate when the first discernible human voice traveled over wire from one person to another.

Sometimes commentators will cherry-pick early phone laments to suggest that fears over the newest tech, like smartphones or artificial intelligence, are an irrational panic we’ve seen before. But in ...

For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience, here’s a primer on how to use a rotary dial telephone. Produced by Big Brother … I mean, the telephone company … in the 1930s, the ...