These days, our phones are basically extensions of our bodies. An MIT historian of science and technology takes us back to Alexander Graham Bell's famous first telephone call on March 10, 1876. These ...

1876. MR. WATSON, COME HERE, I WANT YOU. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE EVER UTTERED OVER A TELEPHONE CALL. AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE AT THE CORNER OF AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND THE HARRISON AVENUE ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...