‘Life, Larry’ and America’s Unhappy Birthday

On the one hand, the 250th anniversary has given us presidential blood sport. On the other comes a show about star-spangled ...
BBC

KS2 History: Alexander Graham Bell

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:I'm going to tell you something about my life. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:My name is Alexander Graham Bell. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:I was born in the year 1847, in Edinburgh. ALEXANDER ...

The American innovation that made millions of others possible

From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...
Nature

Invention of the Telephone

IN connexion with the centenary address on “Alexander Graham Bell and the Invention of the Telephone”given before the Royal of Edinburgh by Prof. G. W. O. Howe, an abridgment of which was published in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Everyone Wanted Alexander Graham Bell to Debut the Telephone at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He Almost Avoided It Entirely

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

The Invention of the Trillionaire

ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1916, five years after the U.S. Supreme Court famously ordered the breakup of Standard Oil, founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. became the world’s first billionaire. The Sherman Antitrust ...

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...
PBS

The Development of the Telephone

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...
Forbes

The Convergence Of Patent Strategy And AI Acquisition Readiness

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. M&A activity in AI is increasingly defined by speed, asymmetry of information and the ...
RiverBender.com

June 29 in History: Globe Theatre Fire, Furman Ruling and the First iPhone

June 29 marks the Globe Theatre fire, Furman v. Georgia, and the first iPhone release, plus world-changing moments in history ...

In 1941, Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil created the technology that later inspired Bluetooth

A Hollywood actress and a composer's wartime innovation, frequency hopping, initially aimed at guiding torpedoes, has become ...
The New York Times

Iran War Timeline: Key Moments and Attacks

The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, starting a monthslong war that spread to neighboring countries and rocked global markets. By Lynsey Chutel Ephrat Livni and Ashley Ahn The United ...