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Alexander Graham Bell sits at a desk speaking into an early telephone, surrounded by a crowd of men observing the event in a formal room.
Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with an early telephone device positioned in front of him, symbolizing the first telephone call in history.
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating the telephone Evolution of the Phone: A look at telephone technology through the decades. A man in period clothing speaks into an early telephone device in a black-and-white dramatization of Alexander Graham Bell's first successful telephone call. 1897 telephone telephone c. 2000 Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 sketch of an early telephone design, showing a man speaking into a large cone connected to a device, with handwritten notes below. Engraving of Alexander Graham Bell seated at a table filing his telephone patent with an official; Bell's early telephone device rests on a separate table to the right. Alexander Graham Bell
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Deleted Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Insect Science - A DNA-based approach to infer species diversity of larvae and adults from the white grub genus Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae). Aug 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Social Sci LibreTexts - Electrifying Communication- The Telegraph and Telephone. Apr 16, 2026
Add new Web site: Heritage History - Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the Telephone. Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The History Listen - An Object in Time - The Telephone. Dec 05, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - Do we still need the telephone? Aug 29, 2025
Add new Web site: ITPA - History of the Telephone. Apr 25, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Clemson University Open Textbooks - Science Technology and Society a Student Led Exploration - The Invention of the Telephone. Jan 13, 2025
Add new Web site: National Museums Scotland - Did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone? Oct 29, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Pubmed Central - The Lancet on the Telephone 1876-1975. Oct 23, 2024
Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - The Development of the Telephone. Feb 16, 2024
Added the “Evolution of the Phone” infogram. Nov 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Live Science - Who invented the telephone? Oct 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Telephones. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Elon University - Imagining the Internet - 1870s � 1940s: Telephone. May 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Insect Science - A DNA-based approach to infer species diversity of larvae and adults from the white grub genus Phyllophaga (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae). Sep 20, 2022
Add new Web site: Inventors and Inventions - The Telephone. Apr 05, 2022
Corrected display issue. Mar 01, 2021
Add new Web site: Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - Telephone. Jan 15, 2019
Added material about Antonio Meucci's early sound transmitter. Mar 15, 2018
Add new Web site: Independent Telecommunications Pioneer Association - History of the Telephone. Nov 07, 2017
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Telephone. Nov 06, 2017
Mentioned call waiting. Nov 01, 2017
Added cross-references. Nov 01, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Alexander Graham Bell. Feb 17, 2017
Add new Web site: Elon University School of Communications - Imagining the Internet | A History and Forecast - Telephone. Jul 29, 2016
Added video. Feb 03, 2015
Added a map of the first transcontinental telephone line. Jan 23, 2015
Deleted photograph. Mar 24, 2014
Deleted photograph. Jan 22, 2014
Replaced photograph. Jan 21, 2014
Add new Web site: KidsFront - Telephone. Feb 15, 2013
Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - History of Telephone. Feb 15, 2013
Add new Web site: None. Dec 14, 2012
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Invention of The Telephone. Dec 14, 2012
Bell's first call to Watson changed to version written in Bell's original lab notes: "Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you." Aug 10, 2011
Added new Web site: None. Mar 17, 2009
Bibliography revised and updated. Jan 08, 2009
Article thoroughly revised. Jan 08, 2009
Added new Web site: Federal Communications Commission - The History of the Telephone. Jul 23, 2008
Added new Web site: IEEE Virtual Museum - Telegraphs and Telephones. May 09, 2008
Added new Web site: The American Experience - The Telephone. Jul 10, 2006
Added new Web site: Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone. Jun 02, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 26, 1999
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