Alexander Graham Bell, best known for his invention of the telephone, revolutionized communication as we know it. His interest in sound technology was deep-rooted and personal, as both his wife. Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Alexander Graham Bell is best known as the inventor of the telephone — the first to transmit the human voice by means of an electric current — but there was much more to this extraordinary man than his breakthrough in communications technology. As a scientist, inventor, and all-around visionary, Alexander Graham Bell constantly broke new and exciting ground. Forever dedicated to changing the world around him, Bell has done that and more through the legacy of inventions he left in his wake. Alexander Graham Bell, from 1874 to 1879, was a professor of the mechanism of speech in Boston University's School of Oratory Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈɡreɪ.əm / ⓘ; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. [7] Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born British-Canadian-American teacher, scientist, and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. Alexander Graham Bell, teacher of the deaf, inventor, scientist (born 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died 2 August 1922 near Baddeck, NS). Alexander Graham Bell is generally considered second only to Thomas Alva Edison among 19th- and 20th-century inventors. Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was a British-American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886). Alexander Graham Bell was born to Alexander Melville and Eliza Symonds Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. His father worked with the deaf, and was the inventor of “Visible Speech,” a universal alphabet that portrays the sounds made by the human voice as a series of symbols.