Alexander Graham Bell,

During the experiments he carried out with the telegraph, 

Bell came up with the idea of the telephone.

The inventor of one of the most popular devices today 

thought that the telephone was intruding, that is why he did 

not have one in his workplace.

Born: March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada