This Day in History: Alexander <br />Graham Bell Patents the Telephone March 7, 1876 Born in Scotland, <br />Bell relocated to Boston after he<br />worked with the deaf in London. Through his work at Boston's <br />Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf, <br />Bell began to develop the ideas that <br />would lead to the invention. Seeking to improve upon the <br />then-cutting edge telegraph technology, <br />Bell sought to create a "harmonic telegraph." Essentially, he wanted to combine <br />the long distance communication abilities <br />of the telegraph with the sound <br />producing abilities of the record player. Working with Thomas A. Watson, <br />the inventors created a device that <br />used an electric current to transmit sound. Days after the patent approval, <br />the first message carried by telephone was Bell's <br />famous request, "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you."
