GRAHAM BELL

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist who was born in 1847 and grew up in Edinburgh. He moved to Canada in 1870 at the age of 23, and then to the United States in 1871 when he turned 24. He finally became a U.S. citizen in 1882.

Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the telephone. People called him "the father of the deaf" because before he invented the telephone, he experimented with hearing devices and he actually invented one that improved the hearing of some deaf people. Both his mother and his wife were deaf, motivating him to work harder to invent and improve such devices. These devices later on helped him to invent the telephone in 1876.

There were other people who claimed that they invented the telephone, but Bell received the first US patent for the invention of the telephone in 1877. Bell spent his final years in his house in both Washington and Beinn Bhreagh, a summer retreat in Canada. He died in 1922 in the Unites States.