A report on Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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Volta Laboratory and Bureau
11 linksThe Volta Laboratory (also known as the "Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory", the "Bell Carriage House" and the "Bell Laboratory") and the Volta Bureau were created in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. by Alexander Graham Bell.
Aerial Experiment Association
9 linksThe Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) was a Canadian-American aeronautical research group formed on 30 September 1907, under the leadership of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
Beinn Bhreagh
8 linksBeinn Bhreagh is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova Scotia.
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
7 linksAmerican businesswoman, and the daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Green Hubbard.
American businesswoman, and the daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Green Hubbard.
As the wife of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone, she took the married name Mabel Bell.
Telephone
5 linksTelecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
Telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice at a second device.
Bell Telephone Company
8 linksThe Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company – the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Frederick Walker Baldwin
8 linksFrederick Walker Baldwin (January 2, 1882 – August 7, 1948), also known as Casey Baldwin, paternal grandson of Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, was a hydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Photophone
7 linksTelecommunications device that allows transmission of speech on a beam of light.
Telecommunications device that allows transmission of speech on a beam of light.
It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's laboratory at 1325 L Street in Washington, D.C. Both were later to become full associates in the Volta Laboratory Association, created and financed by Bell.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
5 linksAmerican lawyer, financier, and community leader.
American lawyer, financier, and community leader.
One of his daughters, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, married Alexander Graham Bell.
Thomas Edison
5 linksAmerican inventor and businessman.
American inventor and businessman.
Although Edison obtained a patent for the phonograph in 1878, he did little to develop it until Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter produced a phonograph-like device in the 1880s that used wax-coated cardboard cylinders.