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IMAGO International History, Archive, Great Inventors, Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922

Jun 23, 2026

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  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Alexander Graham Bell s photo phone. Alexander Graham Bell s photo phone. vibrations of the diaphragm of the transmitter caused light pulses to fall on a light sensitive selenium cell. Dated 1891 Editorial use only. All other uses to be cleared with the copyright owner (World History Archive), in advance., WHA_092_0261.jpg, Alexander Graham Bell; photo phone; vibrations; diaphragm; transmitter; light pulses; selenium cell; 1891; communication; invention; technology; historic; telephone; sound; innovation; experiment; scientific; device; inventor; scientist; historic; telephone; sound; innovation; experiment; scientific; device; inventor; scientist; light sensitive; communication device; historical invention. Copyright: xWorldxHistoryxArchivex
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Alexander Graham Bell s photo phone. Transmitter of Bell s Photo phone: vibrations of the diaphragm at the end of the mouthpiece tube caused pulses of light to be transmitted to receiver which had light-sensitive selenium. London, 1891 Editorial use only. All other uses to be cleared with the copyright owner (World History Archive), in advance., WHA_092_0256.jpg, Transmitter; Bell s Photo phone; vibrations; diaphragm; mouthpiece tube; pulses of light; transmitted; receiver; light-sensitive; selenium; London; 1891; communication; technology; invention; historic; telephone; Alexander Graham Bell; innovation; scientific; experiment; Victorian era; electrical; device; sound waves; historic; antique; early telephone; telec Copyright: xWorldxHistoryxArchivex
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born American inventor who patented the telephone in 1876. (Colorised black and white print). Copyright:xAnnxRonanxPicturexLibrary HeritagexImagesxUnknownx IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:AnnxRonanxPicturexLibrary HeritagexImagesxUnknownx IMAGO
  • UK Scotland: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish scientist, inventor and engineer. USA, c. 1918 Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 August 2, 1922) was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.<br ><br > Bell s father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell s life s work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • UK Scotland: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish scientist, inventor and engineer. Canada, c. 1915 Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 August 2, 1922) was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.<br ><br > Bell s father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell s life s work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Bell with his wife, children, and several grandchildren at Gilbert Grosvenor s country estate Wild Acres in Bethesda, Maryland. Photograph, c1916. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0651424
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Bell, with Reverend Dexter King and Dr. Ira Allen, seated on the top step outside Pemberton Square School (Boston School for the Deaf) in Boston, Massachusetts. Below are teachers Annie M. Bond, Sarah Fuller, Ellen L. Barton, and Mary H. True with students. Photograph, 1871. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0636534
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Seated in an automobile with (left to right): Charles Thompson, J.A. Douglas McCurdy, and F.W. Baldwin. Photograph, c1908. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0622503
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. With his wife Mabel. Photograph, c1917. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0622083
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. With his grandson Graham Sandy Fairchild. Photograph, c1909. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0621904
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. At the New York end of the first long-distance telephone call to Chicago. Photograph, 18 October 1892. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0180633
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Photographed with his family and friends at a lodge at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, c1890. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0117093
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Photographed with his wife, daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Melville Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard on a porch at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1885. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0117083
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Photograph, c1910-1920. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0117062
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Photographed at the anniversary of Bell Telephone with the National Geographical Society. Front: Theodore N. Vail, Alexander Graham Bell, Back of Bell: Thomas A. Watson, Upward right: J.J. Carty, G.H Grosvenor and J.O. LaGorge. Photograph, 1916. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0116945
  • BELL S TELEPHONE, c1920. Demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell s telephone through which speech sounds were first transmitted electrically. Photographed in c1920. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0116944
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Bell in his laboratory with his assistant, Thomas Augustus Watson, holding an early model of the telephone. Oil painting, undated. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0116087
  • BELL & DOM PEDRO, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (right) instructing Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II on the use of his telephone receiver during the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, 1876. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0076206
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. An actor portrays Bell speaking into his Centennial telephone at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition in June 1876, in a filmed reenactment of 1926. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0065208
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. From the Bell Telephone Exhibit at the New York World s Fair, 1939-40. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0058423
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish born) teacher and inventor. Bell s invention as described in an English newspaper of 1877. Copyright: xSarinxImagesx xGRANGERx 0051003
  • ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish born) teacher and inventor. Photograph by I.D. Boyce, 1913. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0042789
  • TELEPHONE: PATENT. Patent drawing, dated March 7, 1876, for Alexander Graham Bell s telephone. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0028091
  • Elisha Gray s telephone, as described in his patent caveat of 14th February 1876. The Speaking Telephone, New York, 1879 ., Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xWorldxHistoryxArchivex WHA_092_0324 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!
  • Alexander Graham Bell s (3rd March 1847 - 2nd August 1922) Inventor of original Bell s telephone dated 1876., Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xWorldxHistoryxArchivex WHA_092_0302 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Alexander Graham Bell telephones Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1876. Artist: Unknown Copyright:xKeystonexArchives HeritagexImagesx IMAGO ,2358677 ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:KeystonexArchives HeritagexImagesx IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Bell s first telephone, 1876. Copyright:x?xFinexArtxImages HeritagexImagesx IMAGO ,2667106 ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:?xFinexArtxImages HeritagexImagesx IMAGO
  • Alexander Graham Bell at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the 1876 invention of the telephone, Boston, Mass., 1916. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL014 EC259
  • ALEXANDER G. BELL-At home listening to his radiophone set, 5-6-22. - CPL Archives Everett Collection CPL Archives Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCPLxArchives EverettxCollectionx HBDAGBE CL001
  • TELEPHONE XIXeme s. Disposition adoptee par M. Graham Bell pour l usage du telephone avec sa sonnerie magneto-electrique . Illustration tiree de la revue La Nature du 2 fevrier 1878. Credit : Collection KHARBINE-TAPABOR. *** TELEPHONE XIXth c Provision adopted by Mr Graham Bell for the use of the telephone with its electric magneto ring Illustration taken from the magazine La Nature of February 2, 1878 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH241808
  • Telephone Conference sur le telephone faite a Salem (USA) par Graham BELL (1847-1922) . Gravure tiree de La Nature du 21 04 1877. Credit : Collection KHARBINE-TAPABOR. *** Telephone Conference on the telephone made in Salem USA by Graham BELL 1847 1922 Engraving from La Nature of 21 04 1877 Credit Collection KHARBINE TAPABOR KH22187
  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Scottish-born American inventor. Sketch of his telephone of 1876. Library of Congress Photos12.com - Ann Ronan Picture Library Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP07098390003099
  • Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Scottish-born American inventor; patented telephone 1876. Picture published 1907 Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP07096_390001949
  • Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Scottish-born American inventor; patented telephone 1876. Photograph of Bell as a young man Copyright: xPhoto12 AnnxRonanxPicturexLibraryx ARP07096_390001945
  • Elisha s telephone, dated 1896. Created by Elisha Gray (2nd August 1835 - 21st 1901), American inventor and competitor of Alexander Graham Bell. WorldxHistoryxArchive 917_05_WHA_092_0300
  • Alexander Graham Bell s photo phone. vibrations of the diaphragm of the transmitter caused light pulses to fall on a light sensitive selenium cell. Dated 1891 WorldxHistoryxArchive 917_05_WHA_092_0259
  • diagram of Bell s second telephone: Acoustic waves through N (diaphragm) and A (lever) make the armature of the electromagnet connected to lever vibrate. New York, dated 1879 WorldxHistoryxArchive 917_05_WHA_092_0303
  • Alexander Graham Bell s (1847-1922) telephone, exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. This was his second and successful instrument. Left: the transmitter. Right: the receiver. London, 1885 WorldxHistoryxArchive 917_05_WHA_092_0250
  • Jan. 1, 2011 - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. - ZUMAg49_