In March, Melvil Dewey acquired copyright for his eponymous decimal system for organizing books. In April, the Boston Red Caps defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in the first National League baseball ...

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.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New Haven. The New Haven Museum displays a replica of ...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI March 7 (UPI) ...

Though Brantford is known as the Telephone City, nearby Paris also played a major role in the invention’s history. On ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, setting off a communication revolution. The history of the telephone includes the first line between cities, operators, phone ...

Alexander Graham Bell conducted a successful experiment with the telephone. His assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”, ...

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 ...

March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...