Alexander Graham Bell Events

1847 Mar 3 Alexander Graham Bell is Born
Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. The family home was at 16 South Charlotte Street, and now has a commemorative marker at the doorstep, marking it as Alexan...
1876 Mar 10 Alexander Graham Bell Conducts A Successful Experiment With A Telephone
"Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you. " —Alexander Graham Bell's Experimental Notebook, March 10, 1876 Bell Family Papers
1877 Jul 9 Bell Telephone Company Organized
The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized on July 9, 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a si...
1880 Feb 19 Photophone Invented
The Photophone, also known as a radiophone, was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his then-assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's 1325 'L' Street lab...
1880 Jun 3 First Transmission on Alexander Graham Bell's Photophone
On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented photophone from the top of the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. Bell be...
1881 Metal Detector First Used By Alexander Graham Bell
Toward the end of the 19th century, many scientists and engineers used their growing knowledge of electrical theory in an attempt to devise a machine which would pinpoint metal. The use o...
1881 Jul 2
9:30AM
 President James A. Garfield Assassinated
Less than four months after his inauguration, President Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot on July 2, 1881, to catch a train for a summer's retreat on the New Jersey seasho...
1883 Nov 13 Alexander Graham Bell Give Eugenics Lecture at National Academy of Science
"defective variety of the human race." —Alexander Graham Bell
1888 Jan 27 The National Geographic Society Incorporated
The National Geographic Society began as a club for an elite group of academics and wealthy patrons interested in travel. On January 13, 1888, 33 explorers and scientists gathered at the ...
1915 Jan 25 Alexander Graham Bell Conducts the First Transcontinental Call
"Yesterday afternoon [on January 25, 1915] the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400-mile (5,500 km) wire between New York and San Francisco." —The New York Times
1922 Aug 2 Alexander Graham Bell Dies
"[The Government expresses] to you our sense of the world's loss in the death of your distinguished husband. It will ever be a source of pride to our country that the great invention, with..." —Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King