A Biography of Alexander Graham Bell
By Liam Figueroa
Alexander Bell was the inventor of the telephone.
Many other inventors tried to invent the telephone.
Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburg, Scotland.
Bell’s mother and wife were deaf.
Bell was a professor at Boston University. He taught deaf people how to speak.
Bell was the first to get a patent in 1876 for the first telephone.
A telephone transmits and receives sounds telegraphically.
A telegraph is a thin membrane vibrated by the voice.
He began his experiments in 1873.
Bell’s assistant was a man named Thomas Watson.
The first successful signs of a telephone experiment came on June 2nd 1875.
An experiment showed that the movements of a reed in a magnetic field could reproduce spoken sound.
Bell Telephone Company was created 1877. Today it is known as AT&T.
Alexander Bell also invented the microphone, metal detector, records and a device that helps detect icebergs.
Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922. Upon his death all the phones in North America were silenced for a short period of time.