Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor and teacher of the deaf who was awarded the master United States patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876. He went on to found the Bell Telephone Company the same year and later worked on early flight, hydrofoils and hearing technology, but the telephone patent, and the priority dispute it triggered with Elisha Gray, remains the work he is remembered for.
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Credited with the first practical telephone, an electrical engineering landmark.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Hydrofoil, Inventions Began hydrofoil experiments in 1908 that led to the HD-4, which set a world marine speed record in 1919; Emmanuel Denis Farcot and Enrico Forlanini had already pioneered earlier hydrofoil designs.
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Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source 2. Alexander Graham Bell (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia 'Alexander Graham Bell': citizenship United Kingdom 1847-1922, born Edinburgh Scotland; checked 2026-09-27
- Wikipedia 'Alexander Graham Bell': citizenship United States 1882-1922; checked 2026-09-27
- In Group: Telecommunications and Radio Engineers, lead paragraph: telecom/radio/television invention or advance stated in own article
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