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 from Russia. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ...

In fact, much of the experimentation and research to develop the first telephone happened in Boston, leading up to the world's first phone call on March 10, 1876 - 149 years ago t ...

But 149 years after the very first telephonic communication − when Bell's voice first crackled over the wires, on March 10, 1876 − more of us are eschewing phone conversations for text messages, ...

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches ... invented the telephone in 1876, which changed how people communicate forever. The first telephone had two parts: a transmitter and a receiver.

The Roseville Telephone Museum showcases the evolution of telephones from Bell's invention to modern innovations.