This Day in History: , Alexander Graham Bell
Patents the Telephone.
March 7, 1876.
Born in Scotland, Bell relocated to Boston after he
worked with the deaf in London.
Through his work at Boston's Pemberton Avenue School
for the Deaf, Bell began to develop the ideas
that would lead to the invention.
Seeking to improve upon the then-cutting edge
telegraph technology, Bell sought to
create a "harmonic telegraph.".
He wanted to combine the long-distance
communication abilities of the telegraph with
the sound-producing abilities of the record player.
Working with Thomas A. Watson,
the inventors created a device that used an
electric current to transmit sound.
Days after the patent approval,
the first message carried by telephone was Bell's
famous request, "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you."