Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. Throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people.

In 1876, this interest lead him to invent the microphone and. “electrical speech machine“, which we now call a telephone. His many laboratory notebooks demonstrate, that he was driven by a genuine and intellectual curiosity that kept him regularly searching, striving, and wanting always to learn and to create.

News of his invention quickly spread throughout the country, even throughout Europe continent. By 1878, Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. By 1884, long distance connections were made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City.