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On March 10th 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA the telephone was invented by a famous inventer Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander was assisted by another inventer Tom Watson. When inventing the telephone the pair had tried to make it work many times. Until March 10th it had worked. Watson had just rushed in from the room next door to tell Bell that he had heard his voice through the wire. Finally they had succeeeded,and after 3 years of hard work and effort their struggle was over. He was so glad of his achievments because he knew a lady scientist named Elisha Gray (his rival) was working on a project along the same lines as himself. Then in 1877, Bell created a company named The Bell Telephone Company. But in 1878 Bell sold his company to a group of financers.
 * __BELL AND THE TELEPHONE__**
 * __About the invention__**

Alexander was born on March 3rd 1847,( which means he invented the telephone at the age of only 29) in Edinburgh, Scotland.He then moved to the United States and settled into Boston. This is when he began his invetning career. During his life Alexander was interested in education for deaf students and sound and that is what inspired him to create an incredible speech machine, the telephone. Bell was always interested in inventing as at the age of only eleven he invented a machine that could clean wheat. He was pretty impressive. In 1877 Bell married a girl named Mabel Hubbard and enjoyed a nice honeymoon through Europe. Bell died August 2, 1922 and in tribute all telephone companies in the US stopped work for one minute.
 * __About Alexander Graham Bell__**


 * __Awards__**
 * In 1877 Bell recieved the James Watt silver medal for the telephone.
 * The master telephone patent awarded to Bell in 1876. (picture on the right)
 * The Societyof Arts awarded Bell his first Royal Albert medal, which was silver.

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