Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)[1] was an inventor, scientist, and engineer who received numerous honors and tributes during his life, and new awards were subsequently named for him posthumously.

[2] Among those tributes: A number of schools, institutes, organizations, academic scholarships, awards, and places have been named in honour of Bell.

A number of historic sites and other marks also commemorate both him and the first telephone company buildings.

Among them are: The "Bell" trademark has been used, and is still in use, with a variety of telephone companies in North America and around the world, including:

Alexander Graham Bell
c.1918–1919
An official government patent document, with a red ribbon and legal seal attached to its left margin.
The master telephone patent , awarded to Bell in March 1876.
A grizzly and well-dressed Alexander Graham Bell sits at a desk talking over antique telephone, surrounded by numerous business executives and news reporters, who are witnessing a historic event, in the atrium of a large corporate building.
Bell ceremoniously inaugurating the New York to Chicago telephone line , 1892
A bearded and elderly man dressed in a formal graduation robe posing with two female university representatives.
Bell receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, University of Edinburgh , 1906.
A nineteenth century wooden rural home of some elegance, with a British Ensign flag mounted from its veranda.
Melville House at the Bell Homestead National Historic Site , his first home in Canada, opened as a museum in 1910 in Brantford, Ontario .
A ceremonial invitation card inscribed in formal print, addressed to Alexander Graham Bell, inviting him to a formal inauguration.
Invitation to Bell to inaugurate the first U.S. transcontinental telephone line , 1915.
A majestic, broad monument with figures mounted on pedestals to its left and right sides. Along the main portion of the monument are five figures mounted on a broad casting, including a man reclining, plus four floating classical female figures representing Inspiration, Knowledge, Joy, and Sorrow.
The Bell Telephone Memorial , commemorating the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. The monument, paid by public subscription and sculpted by W.S. Allward , was dedicated by the Governor General of Canada , Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire with Dr. Bell in The Telephone City's Alexander Graham Bell Gardens in 1917. Included on the main tableau are figures representing Man, the inventor , Inspiration whispering to Man, his power to transmit sound through space , as well as Knowledge, Joy, and Sorrow . (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory , City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada )
Inscribed marker at Bell's birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A.G. Bell US postage stamp issue of 1940
An image of darkened brass historical plaque with a streak of green corrosion running down it, mounted on the exterior side of a brick building.
Historical plaque marker in Washington, D.C., marks one of the sites used by Bell and Tainter's Photophone .
Bell statue dedicated in 1949 , in the front portico of the Bell Telephone Building of Brantford, Ontario.
A My Fair Lady movie poster, in which Bell's works are quoted. The inspiration for the Professor Higgins character was Bell's father Alexander Melville Bell , who was introduced by Melville's brother to playwright George Bernard Shaw .
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site and Museum , opened in 1956 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, near to the Bells' private estate and burial site.
The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal , for meritorious achievements in telecommunications. (Photo courtesy: IEEE )
Parks Canada plaque at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Park , Baddeck, Nova Scotia, adjacent to the A.G. Bell Museum on the same site
The Walk of Fame 'Bell Star' on Toronto's Simcoe Street
Commemorative marker at 109 Court Street in Boston , where Bell and Watson transmitted their first harmonic 'twang' in 1875.
Cambridge, MA plaque commemorating a three hour telephone conversation by Watson, with Bell in Boston, on October 9, 1876.
One of two markers at Bell's birthplace , 14 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. ( Courtesy: Kim Traynor )
An actor portraying Bell speaking into an early model telephone for a 1926 promotional film by AT&T.