telephone

telephone

Mar 3, 1847

Born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Alexander Graham Bell was the son and grandson of authorities in elocution and the correction of speech.

telephone

Jan 1, 1870

In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone).

telephine

Oct 5, 1874

By October 1874, Bell's research had progressed to the extent that he could inform his future father-in-law, Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, about the possibility of a multiple telegraph.

telephone

Jun 5, 1875

By June 1875 the goal of creating a device that would transmit speech electrically was about to be realized

telephone

Sep 5, 1881

. As President James Garfield lay dying of an assassin's bullet in 1881, Bell hurriedly invented a metal detector in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal slug.