On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847.
At head of title: National Academy of Sciences. A paper presented to the National Academy of Sciences at New Haven, November 13, 1883, and published in its Memoirs, 1884, v. 2, p. 177-262.