Alexander Graham Bell

This timeline outlines Alexander Graham Bell's life and accomplishments.

Photograph shows a youthful Helen Keller chatting with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and her teacher Miss Annie M. Sullivan at Chatauqua, New York in July 1894.

 

In this letter, Alexander Graham Bell write about his illness, discusses his busy schedule, and remarks upon his family matters. He also spoke about trying to write to Helen Keller in Braille and the difficult task of having someone transcribe his letters and the process of Keller understanding the…

A portrait of Alexander Graham Bell in 1904.

This is a correspondence from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell. This letter discusses the health of Helen and of Annie Sullivan. It serves as a thank-you note for Bell’s help in New York and discusses his desire for flight and her support of his endeavors. It is from the Alexander Graham…

<p>The powerful Speaker of the House missed not one but two chances to invest in AT&amp;T in the early days</p>

<p><em>"My God, it talks!” said the Emperor of Brazil. So the new invention did—but not until Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant had solved some brain racking problems</em></p>

<p>The wrecker’s ball swings in every city in the land, and memorable edifices of all kinds are coming down at a steady clip.</p>

<p>The fastest man in the air competed with the Wrights for ten years, became rich, and awakened America to the air age.</p>

<p><span class="deck">This is the story of AT&amp;T, from its origins in Bell’s first local call ,to last year’s divestiture. Hail and goodbye.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Despite all the recent talk, governments will never be much good at fostering new technologies.</span></p>

<p>A new book claims that Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone from Elisha Gray, despite all the evidence against that theory.</p>

<p>Alexander Graham Bell was able to invent the telephone in 1875 after Thomas Watson tweaked a reed that transmitted sounds to the next room.</p>

<p>Alexander Graham Bell traveled to Italy at the turn of the 20th century on an audacious mission to rescue the remains of the man whose legacy endowed the Smithsonian Institution.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt">America’s first female soldiers were Signal Corps telephone operators who made sure that critical messages got through, often while threatened by artillery fire.</p>