Come into the conference room and take a seat, please. It’s 1969, and you’re an executive at Bell Telephone (now AT&T). Legendary graphic designer Saul Bass is about to pitch his plan to ...

Bell was a practical monopoly in that era, controlling the vast majority of the country’s phone communications. Like Google and Verizon today, Bell sought in 1969 to give its fiddly, dated logo ...

In a new book, "The Telephone Gambit," science historian Seth Shulman concludes that Alexander Graham Bell plagiarized a rival's idea for the telephone.

A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime — that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray. IE 11 is not supported.

Become a paid member to listen to this article. The building that stands at 140 New Montgomery was built in 1925 for the Pacific Telephone Company, part of the Bell System.

Furthermore, Wilber asserted, he'd illegally shown Gray's application to Bell, who responded by slipping him a $100 bill.

The Bell Telephone Company, which was founded in 1877, faced some competition early on from Western Union, but then enjoyed a virtual monopoly on telephone service until 1894, ...

A telephone monopoly has been the norm for most of American telecommunication history, except for what may turn out to have been a brief experimental period from 1984 through 2012 or so.

Telephones have changed dramatically since Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first words into a telephone on March 10, 1876. Overall, they’ve improved since then, but the road wasn’t always smooth.