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.
The telephone was patented in 1873, and successfully worked on 10 March 1876, when Scottish-born inventor, Alexander Graham Bell uttered the famous words into the telephone to â¦ his assistant in the next room: Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you. Isaac McArdle.