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Apr 3, 2014 · Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell’s success...
May 26, 2022 · By. Mary Bellis. Updated on May 26, 2022. Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847–August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer best known for inventing the first practical telephone in 1876, founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, and a refinement of Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1886.
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886). He also worked on use of light to transmit sound, development of a metal detector, and heavier-than-air flight.
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.
Alexander Graham Bell, (born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Can.), Scottish-born U.S. audiologist and inventor. He moved to the U.S. in 1871 to teach the visible-speech system developed by his father, Alexander Melville Bell (1819–1905).
Alexander Graham Bell. Improvement in Telegraphy. U.S. Patent No. 174,465. Inducted in 1974. Born March 3, 1847 - Died Aug. 2, 1922. Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone grew out of his research on improving the telegraph.
Science & Tech. 6 Fast Facts about Alexander Graham Bell. Written by. John P. Rafferty writes about Earth processes and the environment. He serves currently as the editor of Earth and life sciences, covering climatology, geology, zoology, and other topics that relate to... John P. Rafferty. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
