# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-graham-bell
# Generated: 2026-09-03T08:02:58.751Z

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name: "Alexander Graham Bell"
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description: "He patented the telephone in 1876 and considered it an intrusion on his real work. Bell refused to keep one in his study, viewing the device that would reshape human connection as a distraction from what he actually cared about: the science of speech, hearing, and heredity."
tagline: "Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)"
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deathDate: "1922-08-02"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Scotland in 1847, Bell grew up in a family steeped in elocution—his father, grandfather, and brother all worked on speech, while his mother and wife were both deaf. That confluence pushed him toward experiments with hearing devices, which led to the U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876. He co-founded AT&T in 1885, but spent his later decades chasing other obsessions: optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, aeronautics. From 1898 to 1903 he served as the second president of the National Geographic Society, writing for the magazine under the anagram H. A. Largelamb. His studies in heredity, less famous than the telephone, were called the soundest contribution to that science in nineteenth-century America. He died in 1922, decades past the invention that made his name.