2016-03-03 Thu

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the Telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March the 3rd, 1847.

In 1872, Graham Bell opened a School in Boston for training teachers of the deaf and also gave instructions in the mechanics of speech. The following year he became Professor of Vocal Physiology in Boston University. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.

The Indian Post and Telegraph Department released on 10th march 1976, a commemorative stamp of 25 Paise in honour of this great man whose invention has changed the world of communications.