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| Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922), American inventor and teacher of the deaf, most famous for his invention of the telephone in 1876.
Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871.
Since the age of 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, he introduced the telephone to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
He died on August 2, 1922, at Baddeck, where a museum containing many of his original inventions is maintained by the Canadian government.
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