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(1847 - 1922) 
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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland and at the age of 14 he graduated from Edinburgh's Royal High School. He had a good friend who was a mechanic and model maker by the name of Thomas Watson. Together they searched for ways of transmitting sounds by electricity. In September 1875, Bell began to develop the plans for the telephone and he applied for a patent. In addition, Bell invented the photophone-transmission of sound on a beam of light - much like the fiber optic cable that we know today. Alexander Graham Bell invented techniques for teaching the deaf, and held patents for the phonograph, hydo airplanes and other air vehicles. Bell was the founder of the National Geographic Society in 1888. |