On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with ...

If Alexander Graham Bell were around today ... The family moved to Canada in 1870 and Bell came to Boston in 1871, where he later opened his own school, training teachers of the deaf.

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the ... he heard the sound of a plucked spring along 60 feet of wire in a Boston electrical shop. Thomas A. Watson, one of Bell's assistants ...

Eventually, Bell moved to Boston and, in 1871 ... which she dedicated to him, writing, “To Alexander Graham Bell, who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech ...

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than summertime in Washington, D.C. He usually escaped to his estate in Nova Scotia, but one year obligations forced him to stay in the humid capital.