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Alexander Graham Bell

  • The day of his birth

    His parents were Alexander Melville and Eliza Symonds Bell. They lived in Edinburgh, Scotland when he was born. He had two brothers.
  • New Beginnings

    Alexander Graham Bell opens his School of Vocal Physiology in Boston and starts experimenting with the multiple telegraph
  • His Bright Idea

    His Bright Idea

    Bells comes up with the idea of a telephone.
  • Testing

    Testing

    Bell and his partner Watson demenstrates his working telephone.
  • The US Patent Office

    The US Patent Office

    He is issued a patent for transmitting sound waves telegraphically.
  • The Bell Company

    The Bell Company

    He created a telephone company called The Bell Company.
  • American

    American

    Bell is now an American citizen.
  • Bell and Watson

    The first transcontinental call between the two of them.
  • Bell Dies

    Alexandar Graham Bell dies.