The inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. His father and grandfather were both elocutionists. His mother Eliza was a portrait painter and a talented pianist. Ale

The way Alex was introduced to telegraph was by his father, when he took him to Charles Wheatstone one of the most famous scientists in England at that time. He had developed a telegraph before Morse. Wheatstone had made a machine that could “speak.” Alex’s father was working for nearly twenty-five years to create a system of symbols that would represent every sound the human voice could make. When they heard the sounds coming out of the machine that Wheatstone made, that inspired Alex’s next project. His father’s machine was completed in 1864. The basic theory of the telephone came to Bell when he wasn’t looking for it. On his twenty-ninth birthday he was granted U.S. Patent No. 174,465 for “Improvement in Telegraphy”.

In 1877 the telephone was invented. The first official telephone line ran from Charles Williams’s Electrical Shop in Boston to his home in suburban Somerville. The first person paying customer was Roswell Dower, who was his friend. Nearly 200 customers had signed up before July 9, 1877. The Bell Telephone Company was founded by Bell, Hubbard, Sanders, and Watson. In two days he got married to Mabel

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