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Birth
Alexander graham bell was born. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. -
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Alexander graham bell and the telephone
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New Name
Bell adopts the name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend, and becomes known as Alexander Graham Bell. -
Teaching
Bell begins teaching music and elocution at Weston House Academy in Elgin, Scotland, and receives instruction in Latin and Greek for a year. -
Brother death
Younger brother Edward Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 19. -
Teaching deaf
Bell begins teaching speech to the deaf at Susanna Hull's school for deaf children in London.
Bell attends University College in London. -
Brother death
Older brother Melville Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25. -
Boston university
Boston University appoints Bell Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at its School of Oratory. Mabel Hubbard, his future wife, becomes one of his private pupils. -
Phone sketch
In Brantford, Ontario, Bell first conceives of the idea for the telephone. Bell's original sketch of the telephone Bell meets Thomas Watson, a young electrician who would become his assistant, at Charles Williams's electrician shop in Boston. -
Egagment
Mabel Hubbard and Bell become engaged to be married. -
Patend
United States Patent No. 174,465 is officially issued for Bell's telephone. -
Demonstration
Bell demonstrates the telephone for Queen Victoria. -
Company merg
The Bell Telephone Company merges with the New England Telephone Company to become the National Bell Telephone Company. -
New kite
Bell invents the tetrahedral kite, whose shape of four triangular sides would prove to be light, strong, and rigid. -
Death
Alexander graham bell died. He died in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada, because of diabeties complications.
