Professor of History, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly momentous words, but their implications were enormous. Spoken by ...

There was a time when the average person’s words traveled no faster than trains or horse-delivered mail. The telegraph had already proven that electricity could carry coded messages across vast ...

I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons behind them are still the same. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first phone call sparked the creation what is now the largest advanced converged network that connects Americans to the internet faster than ever. AT&T Inc. (T) (NYSE: T) proudly continues the ...

The patent for the telephone turns 150 on March 7; the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Related Articles Today in History: March 23, Japanese Americans arrive at Manzanar Women ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

When Alexander Graham Bell made the first-ever phone call on March 10, 1876, he never could have dreamed how the telephone would evolve — not to mention the many ways it would end up changing the way ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. (WBAY) - Tuesday marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. Wisconsin residents played a role in the invention’s early development. Two years before ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, and formed Bell Telephone Company, which became American Telephone & Telegraph – today's modern AT&T. Today, AT&T is leading the ...