Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While trying to improve the telegraph, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell discovered that the voice could be ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born inventor and scientist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, lived for many years in Washington, D.C., and died in Cape Breton, ...