Bell (Alexander Graham) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The son of the inventor of a Visible Speech System, Alexander Graham Bell moves with his family to Canada, then comes to Boston to teach at the Boston School for the Deaf in 1871. He opens his own School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech in October 1872 at his home at 35 West Newton Street, becomes a professor of vocal physiology at the School of Oratory at Boston University in 1873, invents a way to transmit sound electronically in 1875,* and a way transmit speech in 1876.* Bell marries Mabel Hubbard, a former student, and, with the financial backing of his father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founds Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell subsequently moves to New York City, then Washington, D.C., and dies in Nova Scotia on August 2, 1922.