- At the age of 10 Bell was given the middle name Graham.
- Both of Bell's brothers died from tuberculosis.
- In Bell's later years he experimented with a means to detect metal in wounds and with a vacuum-jacket respirator. This led to his invention of the iron lung.
- He assisted Thomas A. Edison in commercializing Edison's phonograph.
- In the early 1890's Bell experimented with hydrofoil boats and airplanes.
- He financed and founded the journal science.
- Bell described himself as a "teacher of the deaf."