On this day 107 years ago in 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call was made between New York City and San Francisco. The call was part of an advertising campaign by the American Telephone ...

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...

On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Fifty years ago, Martin Cooper, an engineer for Motorola, ...

DRAKE: (Singing) You used to call me on my cellphone. MARTÍNEZ: No, not that. Engineer Martin Cooper made that call from a New York City sidewalk and says it went something like this. MARTIN COOPER: I ...

The first cell phone call ever by a customer started with a stolen car. It was decided by a race in Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. And it was completed to the granddaughter of Alexander Graham ...

It changed the way we interact with each other and the world around us." In honor of the 140th anniversary of the first telephone call, we look at some of the top musical hits involving a telephone ...

The very first cellular telephone call took place 50 years ago this week, Chicago. And though it happened on a street in New York City, the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) prototype was ...

Recently, Daniel Bliss received funding from John Hopkins University, Metawave, DARPA, Airbus, Interstate Broadcasting, Viasat, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Systems and Technology Research, AFWERX. He ...

During the worst days of the pandemic, we all used Zoom, for better and worse. It had its quirks—You’re muted, Cathy, and so forth—but it offered a necessary human connection. The rise of videochat ...

So enamoured with this marvel of communication was I that for my third birthday, I asked for and received a toy version of ...