Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922. Scottish
scientist and inventor of the telephone. He
patented his invention in 1876, and later
experimented with a type of phonograph and in
aeronautics invented the tricycle
undercarriage. Born in Edinburgh, he was
educated at the universities of Edinburgh and
London, and in 1870 went first to Canada and
then to the USA, where he opened a school for
teachers of the deaf in Boston in 1872, and
in 1873 became professor of vocal physiology
at the university.