Alexander Graham Bell

Part I of Essay
General Biographical information Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He went to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicizing a sy ....

Part II of Essay
.... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania introduced the telephone to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.  1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston.  1874-75 he began work on his great invention.  Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876  1880 Bell received the French government’s Volta price for the telephone.  1898 Bell succeeded his father-in-law as president of the National Geographic Society.  He died at his estate on ....