I spoke to an AT&T archivist about Alexander Graham Bell's famous transmission. Even though calls have changed, the reasons ...

On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the way we communicate when the first discernible human voice traveled over wire from one person to another.

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, setting off a revolution in communication ...

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NEW YORK CITY -- On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men ...

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," Bell famously said.

Whether it was a chunky Nokia or a sleek iPhone, your first phone did more than make calls. It helped define your relationship with technology, shaped your expectations for digital life, and reflected ...

150 years of AT&T firsts Bell's invention led to AT&T firsts, including the first trans-continental telephone call between New York and San Francisco in 1915 and the first trans-Atlantic call in 1927.

Wisconsin residents played a role in the invention’s early development.