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Alexander Graham Bell is born
Bell is born in Scotland. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander Graham Bell is born to Professor Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. -
FIrst Invention
Bell invents his first machine. His first invention ever at the age of 12 was a machine that could clean wheat grains and remove the husks. -
He moves to England
Bell family moves to England. 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. -
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. -
Opens school for the deaf
Bell opens his own school for the deaf. He opened a school in Boston called the "Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech for deaf students. Helen Keller was one of his famous students. -
Bell invents telephone
He starts 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. -
Proves that telephone works
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. -
Patents his ideas
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. -
Gets 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. -
Forms first company and marries
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. -
Bell passes away
Alexander Graham Bell died but his legacy is still with us today.