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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among other machines) is the extensive work that Alexander Graham Bell did with ...

According to the mots recent estimations, around 85% of the world’s population owns a smartphone or landline telephone - that’s 8.31 billion people who are able to communicate thanks to the ...

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who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound. Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes the image of an old-school inventor, sleeves rolled up, fiddling with wires ...

During the years I spent in the company of Alexander Graham Bell, at work on his biography, I often wondered what the inventor of the world’s most important acoustical device—the telephone ...

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL was born in South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on March 3, 1847, the son of Alexander Melville Bell, who was a lecturer in elocution at the University, and whose father ...