This Day in History: , Alexander Graham Bell br Patents the Telephone.br March 7, 1876.br Born in Scotland, Bell relocated to Boston after hebr worked with the deaf in London.br Through his work at Boston's Pemberton Avenue School br for the Deaf, Bell began to develop the ideas br that would lead to the invention.br Seeking to improve upon the then-cutting edge br telegraph technology, Bell sought to br create a "harmonic telegraph.".br He wanted to combine the long-distance br communication abilities of the telegraph with br the sound-producing abilities of the record player.br Working with Thomas A. Watson, br the inventors created a device that used an br electric current to transmit sound.br Days after the patent approval, br the first message carried by telephone was Bell's br famous request, "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you.