Alexander Graham Bell
March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922
Scottish-born inventor who received the first US patent for the telephone in 1876.
Biography
Alexander Graham Bell grew up in Edinburgh in a family devoted to speech and elocution. He moved with his parents to Canada in 1870 and then to Boston, where he taught deaf students.
His experiments with sending sound by electricity led to the telephone, for which he received a US patent in March 1876. The Bell Telephone Company was founded the next year and grew into the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Bell went on to work on the photophone, sound recording, hydrofoils and aircraft. He helped found the National Geographic Society and served as its president. He died in 1922 at his estate in Nova Scotia.
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Employment
- from Jan 1, 1877 Bell Telephone Company co-founder of the company
Education
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