Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call - W. Bernard Carlson, The Great Courses

The invention of the telephone changed the world. That’s no exaggeration. Phones are such ubiquitous features of our lives now that it can be difficult to imagine life without them, or to understand just how astonishing this invention truly was in the 19th century. Over the six lectures of Alexander Graham Bell and the First Phone Call, Professor W. Bernard (Bernie) Carlson tells the story of one of the great touchstones of American technology: Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876. As you f