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Alexander Graham Bell: Biography
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Biography: Life of
Alexander Graham Bell
Born 1847, Died 1922; Inventor of the Telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended universities both in Edinburgh and London.
In 1870 Bell immigrated to Canada with his parents. Alexander Graham Bell followed his father and grandfather in the work of teaching the deaf to speak. Bell began teaching deaf students in Boston in 1871 and opened a school to train teachers of the deaf in visible speech. In 1873 he began teaching at Boston University.
Bell began his work on the telephone in 1874. The idea was the result of his work on devices to aid the deaf. On March 10, 1876 his famous request to his assistant “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you” was transmitted by telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell married Mabel S. Hubbard in 1877. His wife was one of his deaf pupils.
Bell became a United States citizen in 1882. Alexander Graham Bell died on August 2, 1922 at his estate on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
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