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

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

The inventor of the first functional telephone didn’t come up with his invention with a stroke of luck, but through thorough preparation and study.

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 ...

The patent for the telephone turns 150 on March 7; the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: One of the earliest ways to communicate outside of mail was the ...

IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was published in ...

On this day in 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution stating that Italian American inventor Antonio Meucci, who demonstrated his “telettrofono” device in New York in 1860, ...