Join Greg Jenner and his guests to learn about the telephone on its 150th anniversary.

By 1880, Lewis Latimer had become known as an American inventor on the cutting edge of technology.

Alexander Graham Bell's telephone invention was not a lucky accident. He and his assistant Thomas Watson were already conducting detailed experiments to transmit speech over wires. Bell had patented ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...