On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.

The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million. The building played an ...

On May 22, 1886, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/style/ published a shocking front-page scoop: Zenas F. Wilber, a ...

During a study of evolving telephone designs for our new book, my coauthor Russell A. Flinchum and I came across two of Pratt’s distinguished alumni who had connections to the Bell Telephone System.

Cell phones in schools are hindering student safety, belonging, and learning by creating distractions and anxiety. Students are increasingly turning to their devices instead of real-time support from ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Governor Glenn Youngkin joined legislators, educators, parents and students at a Hopewell Middle school for a ceremonial bill signing which will codify the Bell-to-Bell Cell Phone-Free ...

Developers in Athens have opened a new boutique hotel in a somewhat unusual place — a historic telephone company building. The Bell Hotel on West Clayton Street in downtown Athens opened earlier this ...