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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh Scotland. -
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Alexander Graham Bell
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A. Graham Bell invented his first machine.
Bell invented his first machine at the age of 12. It was a machine that cleans wheat grains and revoed husks. -
He was interested in speech machines.
His father took him to see a machine that can imitated the sound of the human voice. -
Family moved to London.
Bell's Family members moved to London, but he stayed in Scotland and became a teacher of elocution and music when he was 16. -
A. Graham Bell's brother dies and family moves to Canada.
Bell's parents decided to move to Canada. A. Graham Bell also became sick but a journey to the "New World" with a different climate saved his health. -
Bell moves to the U.S.
Bell moves to Boston to teach others his method of Visible Speech System, to help the deaf and speech-impaired people -
Bell opened his own school for the deaf.
He opened a school in Boston called the "Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech for deaf students. -
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
He started experimenting on the phonoautograph, a machine that helps plot sound waves. In the summer of this year he came up with the idea of a telephone. He hired an assistant named Thomas Watson. -
Bell proved that telephones work.
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. -
Bell patented his ideas.
Bell received 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. -
A. Graham Bell got the first long-distance call.
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 -
A. Graham Bell formed the first telephone company and got married.
Bell Telephone Company was formed. Also this year, Bell married Mabel Hubbard of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He started signing his name as "Alec" and not "Aleck." His major source of money was still his teaching since the telephone was not profitable for him yet -
A. Graham Bell had many other inventions.
Bell invents the phonograph, the metal detector, a metal jacket that helped people breathe, and an audiometer that helped detect hearing problems among 18 patents given in his name. He received many honors and many awards are still given today in his name. -
Bell became famous and was involved in other organizations.
Alexander Graham Bell became the President of the National Geographic Society. Bell's family members have played an important part in this organization to this day. -
A. Graham Bell placed the first trans-Atlantic phone call.
For the first time ever, Bell called up Watson from across the continent. 38 years before this call, Bell and Watson had talked on the phone. This one was much better and the quality was clear and crisp to hear. -
Alexander Graham Bell passed away.
Alexander Graham Bell died but his legacy is still with us today.
