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

The phone is one of humanity's most revolutionary inventions, transforming the way humans talk to each other from far away and defining the evolution of contemporary society. Yet who was responsible ...

On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/style/ published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a ...

Absolutely by accident, I fell through a kind of historical trap door into a vexing intrigue” surrounding the invention of the telephone, writes science journalist Shulman (Undermining Science: ...

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 ...

Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends ...

ONTONAGON, Mich. (WILX) - On this day in 1879, Michigan’s first independent telephone company was formed. The Ontonagon ...

“We’re hosting our annual fun fair which is something we do every year just before Halloween. It’s an event kind of reminiscent of the old fashioned penny carnivals, fun fairs, that type of thing,” ...

Behind every world-changing invention lurks a complex creator... Join us as we examine the brilliant minds whose dark sides ...