Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, was born on this day at Edinburgh Scotland in 1847; dies at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Aug 2, 1922. In 1870, Bell settled in Brantford, Ontario, where he developed the telephone from 1874-76. In 1876, he and his father made the first long-distance call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. The call was routed through Toronto, so the actual distance was 109 km. He patented his invention in 1876, and founded the Bell Telephone Company.
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