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  1. Alexander Graham Bell - Wikipedia

    Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈɡreɪ.əm / ⓘ; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with …

  2. Alexander Graham Bell | Biography, Education, Family, Telephone ...

    Jan 23, 2026 · Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was a British-American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and …

  3. Alexander Graham Bell - Inventions, Telephone & Facts

    Apr 3, 2014 · Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.

  4. Alexander Graham Bell Biography

    Oct 1, 2021 · Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone — the first to transmit the human voice by means of an electric current — but there was much more to this …

  5. Alexander Graham Bell - The National Inventors Hall of Fame

    After inventing the telephone, Bell continued his experiments in communication, which culminated with the photophone transmission of sound on a beam of light, a precursor of today's optical fiber …

  6. Alexander Graham Bell | The Telecommunications History Group, Inc.

    In June, Bell demonstrated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. On July 9, 1877, Bell, Hubbard, Sanders, and …

  7. Library of Congress

    Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, Manuscript Division , Library of Congress. Over the years, Bell's curiosity would lead him to speculate on the nature of heredity, first among the deaf and later with …

  8. Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor, Age and Children, Married Life

    Feb 13, 2025 · Alexander Graham Bell was a pioneering Scottish scientist and inventor, born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Best known as the inventor of the first working telephone in 1876, …

  9. Alexander Graham Bell | History | Research Starters - EBSCO

    Alexander Graham Bell typified the remarkable generation of American inventor-scientists of the late nineteenth century whose ability to apply scientific discoveries to everyday practical technological …

  10. Alexander Graham Bell - New World Encyclopedia

    Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, and innovator. He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and then to the United States in 1871.