ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Scottish-born American inventor and speech teacher for deaf students
Birth: - March 3, 1847
Death: - August 2, 1922
Place of Birth: - Edinburgh, Scotland
Known for: - Inventing the telephone
- Founding the Bell Telephone Company
- Teaching deaf students how to speak
Milestones:
- 1870: moved to Canada after his two brothers died of tuberculosis, and to the United States the following year
- 1872: opened a school in Boston to train people to teach deaf students to speak
- 1873: became professor of vocal physiology at Boston University
- March 10, 1876: transmitted the first complete sentence over the telephone: 'Watson, come here; I want you.'
- 1876: patented the telephone
- 1877: formed the Bell Telephone Company
- 1880: established the Volta Laboratory in Washington D.C., using prize money he received from the French government
- 1882: became a naturalized U.S citizen
- 1890: established the American Association to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf
- 1896-1904: served as president of the National Geographic Society