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OCR: ALEXANDER BELL (1847 1922) HE INVENTOR of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, was born in Scotland. where he studied voice production and hearing He later moved to America, where he combined this work with an investigation into the transmission of sound by electricity. Bell managed to transmit his voice electrically in 1875, paten ting his idea the next year. He formed the Bell Telephone Company 1877 part ofa legal fight to protect his patent He peen some of the profits from his invention of the telephone to finance special schools for the deaf. Bell carried on inventing for the rest ofhis designing hydrofoils to make ships faster and kites capable oflifting people LFE ALSO STORY iegal life hydrofoil