It’s 1969, and you’re an executive at Bell Telephone (now AT&T ... For the all-important and iconic logo, the presentation explains that “we explored all possible bell forms, searching ...

A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. In "The Telephone ...

and you’ll see a small AT&T logo above the arched doorway. Remarkably, this building was built for Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1927 and is still occupied today by a telecommunications company.

There were 5.8 million telephones in the Bell/AT&T network in 1910, when this map was published. It shows the uneven development of early telephone service in the United States, and gives us a ...

A 1900s advertisement from the New York Telephone Company touted the Bell Telephone as a way to maintain social relationships with people who were in quarantine due to illness. In May 2020 ...

it may be that telephone monopolies in America are a national tradition. In this larger story, the iPhone matters just as one of the last nails in the coffin of Bell’s would-be competitors.

On this day in 1877, the Bell Telephone Company was founded in Boston as a common law joint stock company. The firm was founded by Alexander Graham Bell’s father-in-law to hold the patents of ...

Telephones have changed dramatically since Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words into a telephone on March 10, 1876. Overall, they’ve improved since then, but the road wasn’t always smooth.