Bell was born on March 3 1847, in Edinburgh Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. . As a young boy, Alexander Graham Bell was home schooled until the age of ten were his mother began to go deaf, and prevented Bell to have an effective education. As the son and grandson of speech experts, he had a unique knowledge of the possibilities of sound. These two factors helped set Bell on the road to the invention of the telephone. Bell was able to dedicate his life to discovery and invention. All his life, Bell was plagued by headaches, usually brought on by stress and overwork. Many inventors had been working on the idea of sending human speech by wire, but Bell was the first to succeed.
             . In the year 1871 Bell traveled to Canada where there he began teaching deaf-mutes, promoting the system "invisible speech. This system was created by Bell's father Alexander Melville Bell, and it concentrated to help show how the tongue, lips, and throat are used in articulation of sound. 1 year later Bell found a school to teach the deaf, and in 1882 he was appointed as an American citizen. From the age of 18, Alexander Bell had been working on the concept of transmitting speech. Later on accidentally while working on a telegraph., he gained knowledge for the telephone. His assistant Thomas Watson helped Alexander Bell achieve his goal. He proved successful in the year 1876, when three days later the first sentence was ever heard over phone "Watson, come here I want you." With the money given to him for the invention by France, he opened the Volta Laboratory in Washington D.C. The First telephone company, Bell telephone Company, was founded on July 9,1877. After inventing the telephone Bell continued his experiments in communication. He also invented the photophone-transmission of sound on a beam light. Bell also added on to his father "invisible speech" some techniques f
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