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23. Alexander Graham Bell
Most Famous For Inventing:The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented something that most of us use every single day, the telephone. However, before he did this, Bell was actually involved with speech and hearing research. Part of his family worked in the area of elocution, the study of formal speaking, grammar, style, and tone. This heavily influenced his technical work.
[Image via Biography]He was awarded the U.S. patent for his invention of the telephone on March 7, 1876. Funny enough, Bell thought of the telephone as a nuisance and refused to have one in his study. Bell later went on to do massive work in optical telecommunications and aeronautics and was one of the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society. Yes, THAT National Geographic. He was even the founder of the American Telegraph & Telephone Company, better known as AT&T.