The inventor had to be persuaded to make the trip from Boston, then balked at the thought of a delay in debuting his device.

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.

The patent for the telephone turns 150 on March 7; the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: One of the earliest ways to communicate outside of mail was the ...