National Telephone Day is observed on the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876.

British merchant Peter Durand made a huge stride in food preservation with his 1810 invention of the can. Canned rations provided to soldiers and explorers saved legions from sure starvation.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL was born in South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on March 3, 1847, the son of Alexander Melville Bell, who was a lecturer in elocution at the University, and whose father ...

In 1908 the first patent for a mobile phone was granted to Nathan B. Stubblefield. It was for a radiotelephone.

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 ...

Research by broadband supplier Zen Internet reveals a growing nostalgia for the “home phone” even as its practical use ...

"I wanted to create a vehicle accessory to prevent drivers from engaging in dangerous calling or texting while driving," said an inventor, from Flushing, N.Y., "so I invented the HANDS FREE GENIE. My ...