Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bell went to Royal High School in Edinburgh, and graduated at the age of 13. He became a student teacher of elocution and music at the age of 16. He instructed at Somersetshire College from 1866 to 1867. When he was 23 he and his family moved to Brantford Canada, where he began his studies in telephony. On March 6, 1876 Bell received the patent for the telephone. While he was in the Volta Laboratory he and hi colleagues experiment ed with the idea to use a magnetic field as a way of storing sound. They could not get it to work however that was the basic principle used in the cassette and computer and then the CD. In 1888 he became a founder of the National Geographic society and he became its second president. In 1914 he received an award for his telephone. Bell died on August 2, 1922 in Baddeck, Canada.