Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. and both his mother and wife were deaf which greatly influenced his inventions. He was born on March 3, 1847. He was born in Scotland. He had two brothers. At the age of 12 he made his first invention which was a simple dehusking machine, which contained a set of rotating paddles, and a set of nail brushes. The invention was used for many years after being created. His father got him interested in speech in 1863. He became very interested in an invention by Sir. Charles Wheatstone. He got so into it that he started experimenting with the families dog. He taught it how to growl then put his hand down it's throat and began manipulating it's vocal cords making it say weird noises.
He began working with the telegraph in 1874 along with the phonautograph which is a pen like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S Patent Office. On March 10, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, hell succeeded in getting his telephone to work.
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