Alexander Graham Bell was the man who created the telephone. The man I can thank for starting the addiction of phones world wide. Bell was only 29 when he created the first phone- it was 1876. One year later, the Bell Telephone Company was founded. Also in 1877 he married Mabel Hubbard and went on a year long honeymoon in Europe!
Before his creative invention was made, he discovered ways for his "hard-hearing" mother to hear him during conversations. When they would talk Bell would talk up close to her forehead so she could feel the vibrations. The Scotland born man eventually moved to Boston and decided to make a school for the deaf. He was an inventive teacher and believed that sounds could travel through a machine.
In 1876 (age 29) Bell received a patent for a device with a transmitter and receiver, only 3 days later he planned to test the device but spilled acid on himself. Alexander called out for help to his assistant (Thomas Watson), his assistant heard him- through the device! Bell then decided to call it the "Telephone."
