The inventor had to be persuaded to make the trip from Boston, then balked at the thought of a delay in debuting his device.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by ...

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 depicted using his early telephone technology to make a call from New York to Chicago. The Print Collector/Heritage Images/Alamy “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly ...

April 25 th is National Telephone Day, when the long and storied history of the telephone is celebrated. While it is commonly known that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, the phone ...

If we asked you to name Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention, you would doubtless say “the telephone”; it’s probably the only one of his many, many inventions most people could bring to mind. If ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While trying to improve the telegraph, Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell discovered that the voice could be ...