In honor of Alexander’s Graham Bell’s 164th birthday this week, we look back on how much telecommunications have advanced since U.S Patent No. 174,465 back in 1876. From the early days of experimenting with transmitting the human voice by telegraph to our increasing reliance on smartphones and mobile networks, there is no disputing that we [...]

Who invented the telephone is one of those questions that’s not easy to answer. There were actually lots of people working on the problem. Alexander Graham Bell may have been the first to actually get one to work, or he might not have been. What is clear is that he was the first guy to [...]