Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the ...

The stuffy confines of the United States Patent Office could scarcely have presented a less romantic Valentine’s Day setting. But on the morning of February 14, 1876, amid the thrum of clerks busying ...

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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 ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

Here’s a quick history lesson: On March 10, 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell -- the man behind the telephone -- successfully made the first phone call in history. The call was to his assistant, ...

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 ...