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Alexander Graham Bell Biography

Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone — the first to transmit the human voice by means of an electric current — but there was much more to this extraordinary man than his breakthrough in communications technology.

His grandfather Alexander Bell was an actor, photography enthusiast and elocution professor who may have been the model for Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion by playwright George Bernard Shaw. Alexander Melville Bell, Alec’s father, was an expert on the mechanics of speech who was a voice coach for those with speaking disabilities. Alec’s mother was an accomplished painter as well as pianist, despite her profound deafness; her son inherited his love of music from her, and he could play anything he heard by ear and distinguish variations of pitch and tone.

Born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, “Alec” Bell (as he was known to his family) was fascinated by sound from a young age, descending from two generations of what today would be called speech pathologists.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Canadian-American inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

This article is about the inventor of the telephone. For the song about him, see The Sweet.

Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)^[4] was a Scottish-born^{[N 1]}Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work.^[8] His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices, which eventually culminated in his being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.^{[N 2]} Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.^[9]^{[N 3]}

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone grew out of his research on improving the telegraph. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent one year at a private school, two years at Edinburgh's Royal High School, and attended lectures at Edinburgh University and at University College in London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught.

Bell had the good fortune to discover Thomas Watson, a repair mechanic and model maker, who assisted him in devising an apparatus for transmitting sound by electricity. On April 6, 1875, Bell was granted the patent for the multiple telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time. In September 1875, he began work on the telephone. On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office granted him Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone. After inventing the telephone, Bell continued his experiments in communication, which culminated with the photophone transmission of sound on a beam of light, a precursor of today's optical fiber systems. He also worked in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf