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Alexander Graham Bell, born March 3, 1847, was a Scottish-American inventor, scientist, and engineer. The world remembers him for inventing the telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company…

On this day, 146 years ago, Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell received the patent for the creation of the telephone. On March 7, 1876, the United States…

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and was an inventor, scientist and engineer who invented the world's first telephone. He was also the founder of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. He was born on March 3, 1847…

Telephones have come a long way from connecting lines to exchanges to reaching homes and now your pockets. However, Alexander Graham Bell, troubled by his mother's hearing loss, had to accept more papads for his patent than he did to…

Near the corner of James and Wilson streets in downtown Hamilton is something you don't see very often these days.Right next to the sidewalk you will find a phone booth. In fact, there are two, side by side, which is even rarer.I can't…

On this day 107 years ago in 1915, the first transcontinental phone call was made between New York and San Francisco. The call was part of an advertising campaign by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to show off its…

telephone was introduced in 1876 and supported transmission of voice frequencies up to 64 kbps. The first NTSC black-and-white electronic television, available in the 1940s, had 525 interlaced lines and displayed images at a rate of…

Content of the article In our world of electronic and digital communications, one wonders what evidence of our daily lives will exist for our descendants in the next century. Modern technology has given us the ability to be in almost…

The following is a reprint of a column passed through the old one Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who died on February 23, 2015.Some text has been updated to reflect changes since the original post and all images used may not…

The town of Woodstock, in the County of Oxford, has a population of approximately 1,200. It sits approximately 10 miles from the Maine-New Hampshire border, nestled among hills, forests and small ponds. And it's the site of what…

Plymouth has a rich and rich history of which Janners proudly shouts, and rightly so. But every now and then you may stumble upon a story you've never heard before, like the one about Britain's very first permanent phone line, set up in!-->…

In front: Lilly Gray, Frances Busick, Emi Whittaker, Betty Foster. Standing: Lutie Moore. (Clovis Museum) Alexander Graham Bell obtained the first telephone patent in 1876. There were over 3 million telephones!-->!-->…

Content of the article Each family has its stories. Passed down from generation to generation in the form of tales told at family reunions or by grandparents to their grandchildren, they detail who we are and how we have become.…

In the early days of the telephone, people couldn't call each other directly. They needed an intermediary, a telephone operator, to manually relay their call to a central switchboard connected to the subscribers' wires. It was a crucial!-->…

In her laboratory in Highland Park, Ill., Elisha Gray developed prototype telephones, electronic music synthesizers, fax machines, and other electrical wonders.Born August 2, 1835 in Barnesville,…

The way people watch television has changed dramatically since the medium first appeared in the 1940s and 1950s and forever transformed American life. Decade after decade, television technology has never stopped advancing: color arrived!-->…

THE phone is one of the greatest inventions of all time, enabling instant voice communication between people all over the world. But who had this ingenious invention - and how was the lucrative telephone patent earned? 4Alexander Graham…

In order to facilitate his regular game of chess, Hugh Cossart Baker Jr. rented four phones so that he and his friends could contact each other directly about their chess moves. Melville Bell (Alexander Graham's father) came to Hamilton…

The world's first international telephone call was made on this day in 1881 between St. Stephen, New Brunswick in Canada and Calais, Maine in the United States. The first corded telephone was invented by Robert Hooke in 1667 which…

ANKARAThe first telephone conversation in history took place in Boston, USA, between inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson on March 10, 1876.“Mr. Watson, come here, I…

Dennis Warden, editor IAt first, I was not a big fan of short messaging (SMS) services. I saw it as an inefficient use of time to broadcast news. When I wanted to communicate with another…

Carola hartley | Let's talk about OpelousasHow many times do you communicate with your phone each day? I can bet it's multiple times. It's hard to imagine our lives today without a phone, right? A little over a century ago, there…

Who was Alexander Graham Bell?Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell's success has come from his…

“We have investigated a lot of properties,” Tubbs said. "But the best choices were the most expensive and it showed us that this was going to have to end."The free museum with limited hours opened in…

With a smartphone in hand, it's easy to forget where telecommunications started. But, at the dawn of telephone communications, counties and cities direct calls through an operator via a manually operated switchboard. While many standards…

President Rutherford B. Hayes' phone number was "1" and could only be reached from the Treasury Department. That day, in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the telegraph room…