GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson.

Detailed explanation-2: -The telephone was first invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Philipp Reis, 1861, constructed the first telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876.