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- Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922. Scottish
- scientist and inventor of the telephone. He
- patented his invention in 1876, and later
- experimented with a type of phonograph and in
- aeronautics invented the tricycle
- undercarriage. Born in Edinburgh, he was
- educated at the universities of Edinburgh and
- London, and in 1870 went first to Canada and
- then to the USA, where he opened a school for
- teachers of the deaf in Boston in 1872, and
- in 1873 became professor of vocal physiology
- at the university.
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