While some predicted the landline to be obsolete by 2020, there are still about 931 million landlines around the world.

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, the inventor of the telephone, revolutionized communication by enabling instant long-distance ...

March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...

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From Alexander Graham Bell’s first call to the bold designs of the mid-century, antique telephones carry history, style, and ...

“Mr. Watson, come here,” were the infamous words uttered by Alexander Graham Bell when he made his first successful phone call on March 10, 1876. It happened in Boston, at a boardinghouse at 5 Exeter ...

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Have you ever wondered what the voice of the telephone inventor sounded like? An unplayable recording of Alexander Graham Bell was found by Smithsonian Institution researchers in 2013 at the National ...

The light bulb wasn’t really Edison’s. The telephone wasn’t really Bell’s. In 2002, the ...

If we were to somehow pull a Bill & Ted and nab Alexander Graham Bell out of the time-space continuum to bring with us back to 2011, he probably wouldn’t even recognize that the tiny Apple-stamped ...