Alexander Graham Bell Day: The man who made long-distance gossip possible

[Collection]Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell came from a family where communication was more than just talking—it was a science. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a speech therapist who developed “Visible Speech,” a phonetic system to help deaf people communicate. His grandfather? Also a speech expert. And then there was his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound.