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 voice of Alexander Graham Bell was recorded on a wax and cardboard disc on 15 April 1885 in Washington DC. But the ageing disc can no longer withstand a needle to play it back, so Bell's voice ...

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 (Reuters) – Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15 ...