Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell has got to be one the greatest inventors in
history. He had many inventions in his lifetime. He improved the telegraph
and even made improvements on the phonograph, but his most famous and most
notable invention is the telephone. Without his invention, communication
would be much more difficult.

Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He
went to school but never graduated. He was taught mostly by his family. He
worked with his father at a University College in London where he was
researching on how to teach speech to the deaf. In 1870, he and his
family immigrated to Canada.

After the invention of the telegraph and Morse code, many inventers tried to
send sounds through wire. Many of those inventors failed. Alexander Graham
Bell was the first to do it. He worked with mechanic and model maker Thomas
Watson. Together they tried to build a machine that could transmit sounds,
and they succeeded.

On March 10, 1876, the first voice was transmitted through telephone. Bell
had spilled battery acid on himself and said through the machine "Mr. Watson
come here, I want you". Watson heard Bell's voice through the machine. His
invention worked.

The United States gave his invention patent number 174,465.

The following year in 1877, the first telephone company was founded, the
Bell Telephone Company.

Bell died in Canada August 2, 1922.

We now have the greatest invention in communication, the telephone.

By Robin Hu