It was Bell, however, who was granted the patent on 7th March 1876 and everything developed quickly from there. Just a year later the Bell Telephone company was formed (making Bell a rich man).

Bell became a naturalised US citizen in 1882. In 1885 Bell bought land in Nova Scotia where he built a summer residence in which he continued his experiments, branching out into aviation!

1888 saw Alexander Graham Bell and as one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society, was President (of the society!) from 1896 to 1904, and also helped to establish the journal.

It was in his Nova Scotia home that Bell died on 2nd August 1922, aged 75.