On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...
The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance ...
The first functional telephone was created by Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), who was granted a patent by the US Patent Office on March 7, 1876. It is said that Bell's first ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
Like some merciless scatological phoenix, butt-chugging — or the art of funneling alcohol into one’s keister for the express purpose of getting tore up extremely quickly — is back in the news again.