Cincinnati Bell’s recent plans to transform itself into a technology and entertainment provider doesn’t mean it is hanging up on phones completely. Voice service will still be a part of the company’s ...

Which American Scientist invented the telephone? The telephone evolved from the creation and afterwards enhancements of the electrical telegraph. Alexander Graham Bell, a renowned Graham Bell ...

A 1900s advertisement from the New York Telephone Company touted the Bell Telephone as a way to maintain social relationships with people who were in quarantine due to illness. In May 2020, as much of ...

A mere four years after patenting the telephone, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was already looking for ways to improve on his new technology. Specifically, he wanted to go wireless. Functionally, ...

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 ...

FIFTY-SIX years ago today, a Bell System manager sent postcards to 16 of the most capable and promising young executives at the company. What was written on the postcards was surprising, especially ...

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial ...

With the help of his father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell organized the first telephone company, The Bell Telephone Company. The company started out as a joint-stock company and was founded in Boston, ...

It’s easy to take for granted just how much the invention of the telephone changed cultural norms. For instance, take the art of eavesdropping. As Mark Twain wrote in our June 1880 issue, “I consider ...