ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

• Alexander was a Scottish scientist and inventor who invented the first sensible telephone.
• Born: March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada
• He was married to Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1877–1922)
• He had four kids; Robert Bell, Marian Hubbard Bell, Edward Bell, Elsie Bell

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

• He went to a college in London(1868-1870)
• He described himself simply as a teacher of the deaf
• Being a teacher of the deaf was very important to him
• refused to have a telephone in his study, feared it would distract him from his scientific work.

FIRST TELEPHONE

• Alexander Graham Bell's big invention
• His name for the first telephone was "electrical speech machine"
• The first words spoken on a telephone was by Alexander on March 10, 1876 to his assistant Tomas Watson
• The first words said on a telephone were; Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."

OTHER INVENTIONS

• Vibraphone
• Photophone
• When he was eleven, he invented a machine that could clean wheat.
• Microphone

Works Cited
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/telephone-light-patents/