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He fell in love with Mabel Hubbard -
In 1871 Bell arrived in Boston -
In Boston, he established a school for the training of teachers of the deaf and mute. -
There in 1875 he made discoveries that led to the invention of the telephone -
In 1876 he applied for a patent in February and received it a few weeks later.
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Bel with his colleagues in 1877. founded his company in July
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Bell and his wife, 1879. who had about 15% of the shares in the phone company in March, it seems they had little idea how fantastically profitable the company would be.
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Bell became a United States citizen
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in November, they were already sold for 1000 dollars each! (And last March, when the shares were still selling at $65 each, Bell's wife begged him to sell them as soon as possible, because she was afraid that they would not be so expensive later!) In 1881. they acted unwisely by selling a third of their remaining shares. However, by 1883 they still cost about one million dollars. -
was died