- Alexander was born on March 3, 1847, at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, to Parents Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, he studied acoustics. His mother and wife, who were deaf, profoundly influenced Bell's life's work.
- Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Initially, he wanted to develop a multiple telegraph.
- On 11 July 1877, a few days after the Bell Telephone Company was established, Bell married Mabel Hubbard at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge.
- In 1883 Bell invented the graphophone, the first practical system of sound recording.
- Bell only attended school for five years; from the time he was 10 until he was 14, but he never stopped learning. He read the books in his grandfather’s library and studied tutorials.
- Alexander Graham Bell was also a professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory. In 1882, Bell became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Alexander Graham Bell died of pernicious anemia on 2 August 1922, at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, at age 75.
- On the day of his burial, all telephone service in the US was stopped for one minute in his honor.
- Alexander Graham Bell continued his many experiments in communication, which culminated in the invention of the photophone-transmission of sound on a beam of light — a precursor of today’s optical fiber systems.
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