Bell was born on March 3,1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, taught deaf mutes to speak, wrote textbooks on correct speech. His father was the inventor of "visible speech", a code that indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue, and lips in uttering various sounds. The "visible speech" symbols helped to teach the deaf how to "speak". Alexander's mother, Eliza Grace Symonds, was an accomplished musician and portrait painter. When Graham was around twelve his mother began to lose her ability to hear. Graham became an expert in "Visible Speech" so he could help his mother and his father with teaching people.

Alexander and his two brothers helped their father give public demonstrations of "visible speech", in 1862. Around the same time, Graham applied for a job as a student teacher at Weston House, an all boys' school near Edinburgh. He taught music and speech in exchange for

On March 7, 1876, the patent was issued. Three days later, Bell transmitted human speech for the first time. Bell demonstrated his telephones at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Graham and Watson performed many successful demonstrations and were given great honor for their invention.

Bell went on to experiment with other things for 45 years after he invented the telephone. In 1880, Bell was awarded the Volta Prize, of 50,000 francs, by the French Government, for his invention of the telephone. He used the money to fund the Volta Laboratory for research, invention, and work for the deaf. There he and his associates developed a system of making phonograph records on wax discs. In 1890, Bell established the American Association to promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. This association is now called the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

Bell worked on a lot of experiments involving the telegraph. During these experiments, he figured out that it would be possible to pick up all the sounds of the human voice on the harmonic telegraph; a telegraph, which he had developed in order to send multiple, telegraphs at one time. On June 2, 1875 Bell was at one end of the telegraph while Watson was working on the reeds in a different room when Bell heard the first sound, a reed breaking over the wire. After plucking reeds for about an hour, Graham gave Watson instructions for making a pair of improved instruments. These

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