For a country with a population of less than six million, Scotland has often been lauded as a country that has consistently punched above its weight on the global stage.  And none more so when one ...

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov said, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" John Dickerson explains how this ...

Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant, Thomas Watson, on March 10, 1876. Communication has evolved ever since.

In fact, much of the experimentation and research to develop the first telephone happened in Boston, leading up to the ...

The last interurban car left the Illinois Terminal Railroad's Alton depot in March 1953, marking the end of the electric car ...

William A. Read’s “Indian Place Names in Alabama” tells us that Tombigbee comes from Choctaw words meaning “box makers” or ...

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. This is another master stroke for the scientific community of the day.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell came from a family where communication was more than just talking—it was a science ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany ...

The telephone revolutionized global communication and reshaped the world. Controversy still exists over who actually invented the telephone first, which I addressed in my column published Sept. 29, ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among ...