The Actual Inventor of the Early Cell Phone

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Alexander Graham Bell, at the age of 12, built a dehusking machine made by combining rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes. That was in 1859. In 1872 he opened the School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speak in Boston where deaf people were taught to speak. He is credited with many developments such as the early version of a metal detector using induction balance. And, he also created a version of a wireless phone. It used light instead of wires and he called it the photophone. He thought it could be used to communicate with harbors on land by sailors. But, there wasn't enough technology at the time to actually put the photophone to widespread use. So the wireless phone actually existed long before the cell phone we enjoy today that seems so advanced for this century. In his life, he only held 18 patents.