1. Alexander Graham Bell is most known for inventing the telephone.
2. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
3. The names of Alexander Graham Bell's parents were Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds.
4. The name of Alex's wife was Mabel Hubbard.
5. Alex became fascinated in the science of sound because of his mother's deafness and his work with the deaf.
6. Thomas Watson was Alexander Graham Bell's assistant and the first person to hear the telephone.
7. The first words spoken over the telephone were "Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you."
8. Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector to find a bullet inside President James A. Garfield.
9. Alexander Graham Bell died on August 2, 1922, in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada.
10. After his death, Alexander Graham Bell was honoured in North America by having the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site established in his birthplace, and by numerous institutions and awards named in his honour.
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