Bell was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
He went on to become Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory.
Bell is widely known for developing and patenting the telephone.
Bell offered to sell his patent outright to Western Union for $100,000. They declined and the Bell Telephone Company was formed in 1877.
When Western Union tried to buy the patent for $25 million in 1878, Bell no longer wanted to sell.
Bell invented the metal detector in an effort to locate the bullet in the body of US President James Garfield.
Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society and on January 7, 1898, he assumed the presidency of that institution.
Bell designed the first practical hydrofoil boat. Bell died peacefully on August 2, 1922, at his home in Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bell also produced important innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology.
