This PBS American Experience page provides a biographical survey of Alexander Graham Bell's life and inventions.

This site provides a biographical sketch of Alexander Graham Bell and his inventions. Find out about Bell's patents in addition to the telephone.

This site describes how Bell started out by seeking to help the deaf and ended up with a telephone. It gives brief information about his family and how he came to invent the telephone.

Part of the larger site about Alexander Graham Bell from the series, American Experience, this biography focuses mainly on his education and experimentation which resulted in his development of the telephone. Included is information...

An interesting description of the career of the man who invented the telephone. Learn more of his adventurous life as you read. (In Spanish)

After you talk on the telephone, you might want to thank Alexander Graham Bell, the man who made it all possible. He built the first telephone over 100 years ago. Learn more about Alexander Graham Bell in this well-constructed overview...

Brief biographical sketch of Alexander Graham Bell who was most famous for his invention of the telephone.

From a PBS series, They Made America, comes this biography of Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone. Read about his development of the telephone and research into the sound.

Biographical information and a photograph of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

A short summary of how Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) came to invent the telephone.

This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...

The biography of the fascinating African-American inventor, Lewis Latimer. In addition to finding out about his development of the carbon filament for the incandescent lamp, you can read about his expertise in patent law, his association...

While the invention of the telephone is usually attributed to Alexander Graham Bell, credit must also be given to others who were working on the concept around the same time. Read about the history of the telephone here. Includes a...

Telephones began to appear in North Carolina beginning in 1879, three years after Alexander Graham Bell's new invention had first been introduced at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. On 10 March of that year, a telephone was...

A description of Granville Woods' successful invention, the multiplex telegraph, which greatly improved railroad safety. From the Lemelson-MIT Project.

The telephone and first practical incandescent light bulb are invented while the word "electron" enters the scientific lexicon.

President James Garfield was shot, but it wasn't the bullet that killed him. Go to this Library of Congress to get more facts.

Brief historical description of the technology introduced in the U.S. after the Civil War and the changes new technology and inventions brought about.