Alexander Graham Bell timeline

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... Read more

Alexander Graham Bell Conducts A Successful Experiment With A Telephone

Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you. Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Alexander Graham Bell Give Eugenics Lecture at National Academy of Science

defective variety of the human race. Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more