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Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 March 1847
- Died
- 2 August 1922
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- Beinn Bhreagh
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Bell
- Father
- Alexander Melville Bell
- Mother
- Eliza Bell
- Spouse
- Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
- Field of work
- speech-language pathology, telephony
- Occupation
- physicist, electrical engineer, businessperson, inventor, professor, physiologist, teacher of the deaf, scientist
- Position held
- professor, board member
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Edison Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, Hughes Medal, National Aviation Hall of Fame, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Albert Medal, Canada's Walk of Fame, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Fritz Medal, Person of National Historic Significance
- academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- archives at
- Library of Congress, University of California, Los Angeles Library, Smithsonian Institution Archives
- cause of death
- diabetes
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- different from
- Graham Bell
- educated at
- University of Edinburgh, University College London, Royal High School, Bath, Royal High School
- employer
- Smithsonian Institution
- height
- 183 cm
- languages spoken, written or signed
- American Sign Language, English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- mass
- 111
- medical condition
- pernicious anemia
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Philosophical Society, Literary Society of Washington
- name in native language
- Alexander Graham Bell
- notable work
- invention of telephone
- place of burial
- Beinn Bhreagh
- residence
- Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion
- topic's main category
- Category:Alexander Graham Bell
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bell, Alexander Graham
- Der Erfinder des Telephons
- ACAB-1 / Bell, Alexander Graham
- Der sprechende Telegraph
- Die menschliche Stimme – Auf Reisen
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Bell, Alexander Graham (03 March 1847–02 August 1922), inventor and educator
- Philipp Reis und die Erfindung des Telefons
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