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He lived from 3 March 1847 to 2 August 1922
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Bell was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
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He went on to become Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory.
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Bell is widely known for developing and patenting the telephone.
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Bell offered to sell his patent outright to Western Union for $100,000. They declined and the Bell Telephone Company was formed in 1877.
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When Western Union tried to buy the patent for $25 million in 1878, Bell no longer wanted to sell.
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Bell invented the metal detector in an effort to locate the bullet in the body of US President James Garfield.
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Alexander Graham Bell was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society and on January 7, 1898, he assumed the presidency of that institution.
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Bell designed the first practical hydrofoil boat. Bell died peacefully on August 2, 1922, at his home in Baddeck on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Bell also produced important innovations in aviation and hydrofoil technology.
