Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who are credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. As a child, young Alexander displays a natural curiosity about his world, resulting in gathering botanical specimens with experimenting even at an early age. A large house on Cape Breton Island. The house, near the village of Baddeck, is still owned by the Bell family. The nearby Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site features a museum of Bell’s life and work that showcases his teaching of the deaf, his invention of the telephone, and, among his many interests, his attraction with hydrofoils.