WASHINGTON, DC — Out of patent litigation paranoia, inventor Alexander Graham Bell donated copies of his devices and sound recordings directly to the Smithsonian. Volta Laboratory disc recording with ...

Nearly 300 never-before-heard recordings by inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell will be restored and made accessible later this year, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have identified the voice of Alexander Graham Bell for the first time in some of the earliest audio recordings held at the Smithsonian Institution. The National Museum of ...

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 ...

Among the original 200 audio recordings the Smithsonian had, researchers found a piece of paper believed to be a transcript of a recording. The transcript was signed and dated by Bell and concluded ...

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 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 ...

The National Museum of American History announced Wednesday that Bell's voice was identified with help from technicians at the Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in ...

Oh, now this is just depressing. I simply refuse to believe that aggressive lawyers and corrupt government officials were behind Alexander Graham Bell's rise to prominence. It's so unlike what came ...

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