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Nov 9, 2009 · Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance telephone call in 1892, reaching Chicago from New York. In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison introduced the phonograph, the first machine capable of ...
Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
May 28, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886). He also worked on use of light to transmit sound, development of a metal detector, and heavier-than-air flight.
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- Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor and scientist. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1870 Bell and...
- Although Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered as the inventor of the telephone, he invented other devices too. Bell developed several sonic tec...
- The first telephone had two parts: a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter comprised three parts—a drumlike device (a cylinder with a covered...
Oct 19, 2018 · Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone to Queen Victoria in 1878, and in 1878 the Telephone Company Ltd was formed to market Bell's phones in Britain. In 1880 the first phone book was published, and an important court judgment granted the Post Office monopoly on telephone services.
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.
The project that Bell himself called his greatest achievement in 1880 he named the photophone. This was a method of transmitting sound in a beam of light using a light sensitive selenium cell...
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An actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell speaking into an early model telephone. The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one individual, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies.
