Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor who transformed how we communicate with each other way back in 1876 with his invention of the telephone. When Bell was a little boy, he used to watch attentively as his father taught deaf students how to communicate. His father probably discovered this because Alexander's mother was deaf. Deaf or not, she was a very good pianist, even teaching Alexander how to play. So, by an early age, that brain of his was already working overtime. Bell invented a wheat husker, a machine for sifting the husks off of wheat during harvesting. But it wasn't until Bell traveled from homeland Scotland to Boston and met Watson that Bell began to dream of another invention. The lines of communication were now opened, and the telephone was invented. ( )