Alexander Graham Bell’s Childhood
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. He was the second of three children born to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His father was a professor of speech elocution at the University of Edinburgh.
Raised in Scotland and Canada
Bell spent his early childhood in Scotland, where he attended private schools and received tutoring from his father. In 1870, the family moved to London, England, and then to Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1871. It was here that Bell began experimenting with sound and inventing new devices.
In 1873, Bell moved to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. He continued his work on sound transmission and eventually developed the telephone. On March 10, 1876, he was granted a patent for the invention.