We know him better as Alexander Graham Bell. This is their love story. The 27-year-old Alexander fell in love with Mabel when she was 17, but it was an unreciprocated fancy.

Alexander Graham Bell. Genius. Father of the telephone. Hardcore tetrahedral nut. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of his best pyramid-shaped ...

Hexagonal kite built by Alexander Graham Bell and his team. The design riffs on the “box kite,” an 1890s innovation that connected two vertical wings to the standard parallel wing structure.By ...

Bell, Alexander G. Description (Brief) An experimental telephone from 1876. Associated with United States patent 174465, “Improvement in Telegraphy,” issued 7 March 1876 to Alexander Graham Bell.

In honor of Alexander Graham Bell's birthday, here's a look at the evolution from desktop rotary to pocket-sized slab. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when ...

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell came from a family where communication was more than just talking—it was a science. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a speech therapist who ...

On the 170th birth anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell, the man credited for the invention of the first practical telephone, we look at his greatest creation, later work and other useful ...