Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the telephone in 1875, but the first phone installation didn't come about…

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Alexander Graham Bell. Genius. Father of the telephone. Hardcore tetrahedral nut. Our friends at Oobject have…

I'm so depressed. I google one of the most important technologies ever invented, and I get a video of 25-year-old…

The ostensible topic of Seth Shulman's new book, The Telephone Gambit, is how Alexander Graham Bell cheated his way…