Throwback: Telephones Then and Now
The patent for the telephone was issued on March 7, 1876.
The long life of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call from New York to Chicago in 1892. Bell invented the telephone 16 years earlier, and received a patent for it on March 7, 1876. The first month Bell Telephone Company existed, it sold only 7 telephones. (Getty Images)
