As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s “The ...

Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes the image of an old-school inventor, sleeves rolled up, fiddling with wires and ...

The new Netflix series Death by Lightning reveals that Alexander Graham Bell invented an early metal detector to try and save the life of President James A. Garfield. When Garfield was shot, doctors ...

If Alexander Graham Bell were around today, that might be how he'd summon his intrepid assistant, Thomas Watson. Of course, for some oldheads that message might take a minute to decipher, or just give ...

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, wasn’t always a great listener. Especially when it came to the deaf people whose education he considered his life’s work. That’s a key conclusion ...

On August 4, 1922, 97 years ago today, America's telephones briefly fell silent. For that was the day Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone (and so much else besides) was buried on his ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among other machines) is the extensive work that Alexander Graham Bell did with the ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...

Joe Donahue: The "Invention of Miracles" is a biography of Alexander Graham Bell, a revisionist biography, if you will. While best known for inventing the telephone, Bell's central work was in Deaf ...

Since 1851, more than 200,000 people have been the subjects of obituaries in The New York Times. This summer we revisited many of these memorable lives. Send us your feedback. On March 10, 1876, ...