The Image of the Telephone In 1876, Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the electric telephone due to his experiences with his mother, who was hard of hearing.

As Alexander Graham Bell Day approaches, let's take a closer look at how the iconic inventor cemented himself in the history books. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland ...

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL was born in South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on March 3, 1847, the son of Alexander Melville Bell, who was a lecturer in elocution at the University, and whose father ...

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than summertime ... Bell’s speech—called “Prizes for the Inventor: Some of the Problems Awaiting Solution”—reflected on a century of progress ...

Stolen Science," was written to finally set the record straight about scientists and inventors who never received the credit they deserved.

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention, the telephone, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. The always-competitive Thomas Edison then worked with ...

Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of "electronic speech" while visiting his hearing-impaired ...