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Alexander Graham Bell

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United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

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;1876: Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. Source: Internet

Alexander Graham Bell used the light-sensitive property of selenium to transmit sound over a beam of light in 1880. Source: Internet

Alexander Graham Bell had originally asked Boston manufacturer Charles Williams to provide an initial order of 1,000 telephones for use in Canada, but Williams' small shop was only able to produce a fraction of that number. Source: Internet

Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. Source: Internet

Alexander Graham Bell was ranked 57th among the 100 Greatest Britons (2002) in an official BBC nationwide poll, citation and among the Top Ten Greatest Canadians (2004), and the 100 Greatest Americans (2005). Source: Internet

A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. Source: Internet

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