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Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...

(WHTM) — The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was facing a challenge. Since its founding in 1885, it had been expanding its network of phone lines, introducing more and more Americans ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Later that day, Bell wrote to his father (as Edwin S. Grosvenor ...

First Phone in the World: The first phone in the world was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This groundbreaking invention allowed human voice to travel through electrical signals for the ...