Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell died on August 2, 1922 of old age and failing health. Bell was 75 years of age when he passed away.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the year of 1876, when he was only 29 years of age.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S FATHER INFLUENCED HIM GREATLY IN HIS YOUTH. HIS FATHER, ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, WAS AN EXPERT ON THE MECHANICS OF THE VOICE, WHICH MUST EXPLAIN ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S EARLY INTEREST IN HUMAN SPEECH.

Alexander Graham Bell was most famous for his invention of the telephone in 1874. The photograph below shows Bell himself placing a call from New York to Chicago in front of an audience.

A TIMELINE OF BELL'S LIFE

In December of 1859, when Bell was only 12 years of age, he created his first machine. This machine could clean wheat grains and remove the husks. This was also the time when Bell's mother, Eliza Grace Symonds, began to lose her ability to hear.

In February of 1863, Bell became interested in speech machines. Bell was first exposed to speech machines when his inspirational father, Alexander Melville Bell, took him to see the "automation machine", a machine that imitated the sound of a human voice. Bell soon became very fascinated by speech and language and translated a German book by another famous scientist so he could build a machine (with the help of his brother, Melville) that would produce speech electronically.

In 1865, Bell's family moved from Edinburgh to London. Alexander Graham Bell, however, stayed in Scotland to become a teacher. Bell was a teacher of music and elocution when he was merely 16 years of age, and before he even attended college.

In 1866, Alexander attended the University of Edinburgh with his elder brother, Melville. Unfortunately, Bell suffered illness from exhaustion and his health kept him bedridden for most of the time.

In 1867, Bell's younger brother, Edward, passed away. In the same year, Bell's elder brother married and moved away to open up his own school of elocution.

In May of 1870, Bell's elder brother, Melville, dies. Bell's parents move to Canada.

In April of 1871, Alexander Graham Bell moves to Boston, Massachusetts to teach others his method of the Visible Speech System, to help the deaf and speech-impaired people.

In October of 1872, Bell opens his own school for the deaf in Boston called the "Vocal Physiology". Hellen Keller was one of Bell's most famous students.

In May of 1874, Bell invents the telephone. He starts experimenting with the phonoautograph, a machine that helps plot sound waves. In the summer of this year, Bell came up with the idea of a telephone. He hired his assistant, Thomas Watson.

On June 2, 1875, Bell proves that telephones work. Watson, Bell's assistant, happened to pluck one of the metal reeds that formed Bell's phonoautograph machine. The accidental move showed that a telephone could transmit sounds.

On August 3, 1876, Bell receives the first long-distance phone call. This call was from Brantford, a town about four miles away from Bell at the time.

On July 11, 1877, Bell formed the first telephone company: simply titled: "Bell's Telephone Company". Also this year, Bell married Mable Hubbard of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mable was deaf, but she could lip-read. At this time, Bell's main source of money was still teaching, for the telephone was not profitable for him yet.

In the year of 1881, Bell invents many other things, such as the metal detector, phonograph, audiometer, and a metal jacket that helped people breathe. Though we know him mostly as the inventor of the telephone, Bell invented several other things.

In the year of 1897, Alexander Graham Bell becomes more recognized for his work. He becomes the President of the National Geographic Society.

In 1922, Alexander Graham Bell passes away. He was aged 75 when he died of failing health. Though Bell himself is no longer with us, his legacy and work still remains.

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The following video gives us a little more information about the first phone call, which was between Alexander Graham Bell himself and his assistant, Thomas Watson.

¨Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The rays of the sun do not burn until brought to a focus.¨ -Alexander Graham Bell