Today, organizers have announced additional details about the Floating Museum's debut exhibition, which will begin its journey along the city's main waterway on August 2.
Alexander Graham Bell Edinburgh, Scotland; March 1847 Alexander Graham Bell is most well known for inventing the telephone. He came to the U.S as a teacher of the deaf, and conceived the idea of electronic speech while visiting his hearing-impaired mother in Canada.
1876 On March 10,  1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical, working telephone. His first words on the telephone was to his assistant in the next room, Mr. Watson, come here.