Alexander Graham Bell

@Inventor of Telephone, Facts and Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American scientist and inventor, referred to as ‘Father of the Telephone’ Dyslexia Canadian Scottish University College London University Of Edinburgh University Of Toronto Electronics Entrepreneurs Electrical Engineers Inventors & Discoverers Scientists Pisces Celebrities One of the greatest inventors of the late 19th century, Alexander Graham Bell is probably most famous for the invention of the telephone and the ‘Bell Telephone Company’, he formed soon after. Throughout his life, he sought to foster the advancement of scientific knowledge with his utmost dedication and sincere efforts. His career only began in earnest after his family moved from London, England to Ontario, Canada in an attempt to improve his health. He started as an elocution teacher for the deaf people where he worked tirelessly to spread an early form of sign language across America. He displayed his innovative talent with his invention of various sound recording and transmission devices. In his later years, his research interests shifted away from transmission devices to transport, including both aeronautics and experimental forms of boats that would later progress to become known as hydrofoils. His greatest achievement remains the invention of the telephone that has changed and continues to change the way people communicate around the world. He was a pioneer, who gifted mankind with one of the most astonishing and trailblazing discoveries in human history, the telephone.

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Birthday: March 3, 1847 Died on: August 2, 1922 Nationality: Canadian, Scottish Famous: Inventor of Telephone, University College London, University Of Edinburgh, University Of Toronto, Electronics Entrepreneurs, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses: Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (m. 1877–1922) Siblings: Edward Charles Bell, Melville James Bell Childrens: Edward Bell, Elsie May Bell Grosvenor-Myers, Marian Hubbard Bell Fairchild, Robert Bell Information Detail Birthday March 3, 1847 Died on August 2, 1922 Nationality Canadian, Scottish Famous Inventor of Telephone, University College London, University Of Edinburgh, University Of Toronto, Electronics Entrepreneurs, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists Spouses Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (m. 1877–1922) Siblings Edward Charles Bell, Melville James Bell Childrens Edward Bell, Elsie May Bell Grosvenor-Myers, Marian Hubbard Bell Fairchild, Robert Bell Universities University College London,University Of Edinburgh,University Of Toronto University of Edinburgh University College London Notable Alumnis University College London University Of Edinburgh University Of Toronto Founder / Co-Founder American Institute of Electrical Engineers Discoveries / Inventions Invented The Telephone Birth Place Edinburgh Born Country Scotland Gender Male Father Alexander Melville Bell Mother Eliza Grace Sun Sign Pisces Born in Edinburgh Famous as Inventor of Telephone Died at Age 75

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In 1877, he married Mabel Hubbard, his deaf student, ten years his junior. She had become deaf at the age of five after contracting scarlet fever. Unsplash Personal Life

They had four children including two daughters; Elsie May Bell and Marian Hubbard Bell. Unfortunately, both their sons, Edward and Robert, died in infancy. Unsplash Personal Life

He died on August 2, 1922 at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada due to complications from diabetics. On his funeral, every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in his honor for one minute. Unsplash Personal Life

He was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Prof. Alexander Melville Bell and his wife Eliza Grace Symonds. He had two brothers—Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell—both of whom died of tuberculosis. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His father taught elocution to the deaf and had developed what was called the ‘Visible Speech’ system to help deaf children learn to speak. He received most of his early education from his mother who was an unusually gifted painter and pianist, despite her deafness. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Throughout his childhood, he spent short periods of time in traditional educational institutions including Edinburgh's Royal High School, which he left at the age of 15. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He initially attended University of Edinburgh and then the University College, London, England, but did not receive a formal education comparable to his peers in Victorian Britain. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1870, after the death of two of his brothers, the Bell family moved to Canada for the sake of his health. Expanding on his father's work of teaching deaf people to communicate, he began working on transmitting telephonic messages. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1872, he founded ‘School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech’ in Boston, where he taught elocution to his pupils. In 1873, he was appointed the professor of ‘Vocal Physiology and Elocution’ at the Boston University School of Oratory. Unsplash Career

While pursuing his teaching profession, he conducted his research to perfect the harmonic telegraph, so as to transmit several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire. Alongside, he was also drawn towards another idea of transmitting the human voice over wires. Unsplash Career

In 1874, he hired an assistant, Thomas Watson, a skilled electrician, who developed the tools and instruments he needed to continue the project. Over the subsequent years, they formed a great partnership and labored on both the ideas, the harmonic telegraph and a voice transmitting device. Unsplash Career

On March 10, 1876, he produced the first intelligible telephone call, when he summoned his assistant, with words that Bell transcribed in his lab notes as “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you”. Watson heard his voice through the wire and thus received the first telephone call. Unsplash Career

A legal battle ensued with inventor Elisha Gray who claimed his invention of the telephone predated Bell's; the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bell's favor and subsequently ‘Bell Telephone Company’ was formed in 1877. Unsplash Career

He is most famous for his pioneering work on the development of the telephone. He worked with Thomas Watson, his assistant, on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. Unsplash Major Works

Many other inventions marked his later life including the refinement of the phonograph. His other exceptional works were in the field of hydrofoils and aeronautics. In all, he held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators. Unsplash Major Works

He was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society in 1888 and served as its president from 1896 to 1904. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	March 3, 1847
Died on	August 2, 1922
Nationality	Canadian, Scottish
Famous	Inventor of Telephone, University College London, University Of Edinburgh, University Of Toronto, Electronics Entrepreneurs, Electrical Engineers, Inventors & Discoverers, Scientists
Spouses	Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (m. 1877–1922)
Siblings	Edward Charles Bell, Melville James Bell
Childrens	Edward Bell, Elsie May Bell Grosvenor-Myers, Marian Hubbard Bell Fairchild, Robert Bell
Universities	University College London,University Of Edinburgh,University Of Toronto University of Edinburgh University College London
Notable Alumnis	University College London University Of Edinburgh University Of Toronto
Founder / Co-Founder	American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Discoveries / Inventions	Invented The Telephone
Birth Place	Edinburgh
Born Country	Scotland
Gender	Male
Father	Alexander Melville Bell
Mother	Eliza Grace
Sun Sign	Pisces
Born in	Edinburgh
Famous as	Inventor of Telephone
Died at Age	75

Alexander Graham Bell

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Mar 3, 1847

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