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Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.
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The middle name “Graham” was added when he was 10 years old.
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The Bell family moved to London but Aleck, as he was called, stayed in Scotland and became a teacher of elocution and music when he was 16.
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In 1866, Bell carried out a series of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are produced
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He joined his older brother Melville as a student at the University of Edinburgh. He suffered illness from exhaustion and his health kept him bedridden most of the time. His younger brother Edward was also sick with tuberculosis.
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May 28, 1870 Older brother Melville Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
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Watson happens to pluck one of the metal reeds that formed Bell's phonoautograph machine. This accidental move showed that a telephone could transmit sounds.
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He invented the first working telephone in 1876.
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Bell receives The U.S. Patent Office patent number 174,465. It allowed him to have his machine transmit sound waves telegraphically without others copying his ideas.
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Bell received a long-distance voice message from a town called Brantford, about four miles away. After this major event, Bell began to demonstrate and speak about his new invention to the public.
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The Bell Telephone Company was organized on July 9, 1877.
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Bell married Mabel Hubbard of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Aug-Sept, 1890 Bell and his supporters form the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
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In January 1915, Bell was invited to make the first transcontinental phone call. From New York, he spoke with his former associate Watson in San Francisco.
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Shortly after his death, the entire telephone system was shut down for one minute in tribute to his genius.
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Bell died peacefully on August 2, 1922, at his home in Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
