Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and founder of Bell Canada, who was known as the father of the telephone. In addition to his work in telecommunications technology, he was responsible for important advances in aviation and hydrofoil technology.
External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Alexander Graham Bell Institute
- Bell Homestead, National Historic Site
- Alexander Bell.com - Telecom Pioneers by Phonebook of the World.com
- Bell's speech before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on August 27, 1880, presenting the photophone. Very clear description. Published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light" in the American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, vol. XX, #118, October 1880, pp. 305 - 324; and as "Selenium and the Photophone" in Nature, September 1880.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office, patent US174465 for the telephone.
- Alexander Graham Bell family papers Online version at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images) containing correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research.
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