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Bell (ALEXANDER GRAHAM inventor)

ALEXANDER GRAHAM, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, March 3, 1847. He was educated in Edinburgh and in Germany, and settled in Canada in 1870. In 1872 he ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL went to the United States and introduced for the education of deaf mutes the system of visible speech contrived by his father. He became Professor of Vocal Physiology in Boston University, and at the Philadelphia Exhibition, in 1876, exhibited his telephone, designed and partly constructed some years before. He was also the inventor of the photophone in 1880, of the graphophone in 1887, and of kindred instruments. He made many improvements to tetrahedral kites and in aerial locomotion for the Aerial Experiment Association (1903-1908). Gold and silver medals and degrees from the leading scientific associations and universities of Europe and the United States have been awarded to him. In 1887 he founded and endowed the Volta Bureau for Relief of the Deaf, in 1900 the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Regent of Smithsonian Institution since 1898. In 1904 he brought to the U. S. the remains of James Smithson from Genoa, Italy.