When Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibited their telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Henry saw to it that the invention received the Certificate of Merit. Even at the ...

Bell's most famous invention, the telephone, was first patented on March 7, 1876. With this device, Bell was able to transmit sound over a wire, making it possible for people to communicate with ...

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell did so and patented the first telephone. An animation is used to show how electromagnets are used in this invention. The social reasons behind the slow adoption of ...

Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communication with the invention of the telephone in 1876. For the first time, people could connect instantly over long distances, a dramatic improvement from ...

When he was eleven, Bell invented a machine that could clean wheat. He later said that if he had understood electricity at all, he would have been too discouraged to invent the telephone.