If the automobile is emblematic of mankind’s innate desire for autonomy and independence, the phone represents our powerful need to connect with one another. Combine these two seemingly diametrically ...

On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...

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Alexander Graham Bell’s invention was supposed to make life under quarantine bearable. But AT&T ended up begging people to stay off the line. Being cooped up at home during a pandemic is not fun. But ...

A 1900s advertisement from the New York Telephone Company touted the Bell Telephone as a way to maintain social relationships with people who were in quarantine due to illness. In May 2020, as much of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Later that day, Bell wrote to his father (as Edwin S. Grosvenor ...

The development of the telephone has a long and complex past, reaching far back before the well-known electromagnetic versions. Earlier mechanical devices could already send speech and music further ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

Bell, together with AST SpaceMobile, today announced a groundbreaking milestone in its mission to connect all Canadians: the ...

Bell Canada and AST SpaceMobile completed a satellite-based VoLTE test which advances goals for a commercial service in 2026.