{"slug": "alexander-graham-bell", "label": "Alexander Graham Bell", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34286", "qid": "Q34286", "description": "Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [1847, 1922], "span_label": ["1847 CE", "1922 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "thomas-edison", "label": "Thomas Edison", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1847, "year_label": "1847 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian inventor (d. 1922)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362575777#March", "title": "1847", "revid": 1362575777, "section": "Births › March"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Emile Berliner invents an improved form of microphone which will be adopted for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#Date_unknown", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a U.S. patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#February", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for the telephone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#March", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#June", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369747876#January", "title": "1881", "revid": 1369747876, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – The first United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call is facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#January", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor (b. 1847)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#August", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Deaths › August"}}]}