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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847.
* He was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
* He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
* Bell was born into a family of scientists and inventors.
* His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a professor of elocution and his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds, was deaf.
* Bell was interested in the science of sound from a young age.
* In 1876, Bell was granted a patent for the telephone.
* The telephone revolutionized communication and made it possible for people to talk to each other over long distances.
* Bell died in Nova Scotia, Canada on August 2, 1922.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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