Calling Scotland’s greatest inventor: Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell became an expert ventriloquist

THIS week sees the centenary of the death of the man who has a fair claim to be remembered as Scotland’s greatest inventor.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and much else besides, died at Beinn Breagh, Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, on August 2, 1922. He was then aged 75, and had been officially credited with the invention of the telephone back in 1876.