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

He got his first glimpse of how these two interests might go together when his father, Melville Bell, took him to meet the British physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone. Some years earlier, Melville ...

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 ...