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Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Melville Bell, a Scottish educator who developed a system called "visible speech." Alexander was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He moved to the United States in 1871, residing in the Boston area. Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone. Many inventors were trying to achieve the ability to send voice over long distances, but A.G. Bell was the …

…Baldwin, Thomas Selfridge, and J.A.D. McCurdy, four young engineers whose common goal was to create airborne vehicles. By 1909, the group had produced four powered aircraft, the best of which, the Silver Dart, made the first successful powered flight in Canada on February 23, 1909. Bell spent the last decade of his life improving hydrofoil designs, and in 1919 he and Casey Baldwin built a hydrofoil that set a world water-speed record that was not broken until 1963.