Alexander Graham Bell

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Bell, Alexander Graham

Born Mar. 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland; died Aug. 2, 1922, in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada. One of the inventors of the telephone.

Bell graduated from the universities of Edinburgh and London. In 1870 his family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada. In 1872, Bell opened an educational institution in Boston to prepare teachers of the deaf. From 1873 he was professor of the physiology of the speech organs at Boston University (USA). In 1876 he was issued a U.S. patent for a telephone which he invented, and in 1877, an additional patent on the diaphragm and fitting. From 1884 to 1886, together with others, he published his works and received patents in the field of the recording and reproduction of sound. From 1898 he was one of the directors of the Smithsonian Institution.

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