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 ingenuity ...

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 ...

Here’s a quick history lesson: On March 10, 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell -- the man behind the telephone -- successfully made the first phone call in history. The call was to his assistant, ...

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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell gets all the credit for inventing the telephone, but that’s because he triumphed in the legal arena all the way to the Supreme Court in 1888. The simple stories of great ...

Alexander Graham Bell was a professor on paid leave from Boston University’s School of Oratory on March 10, 1876, when he successfully completed the first telephone call ever, to his assistant Thomas ...

April 25 is just another day to most people, but the date celebrates an important invention that has revolutionized our lives─the telephone. While most people greet a caller with hello, the article ...

The telephone, invented 150 years ago this month by Boston University School of Oratory Professor Alexander Graham Bell, is pretty tough to top as far as inventions that came out of BU (or anywhere) ...

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) ...