Wasn't Alexander Graham Bell Canadian?

[struggle4progress]

By Jesse Ferreras
Online Journalist Global News

... An examination of Bell’s life confirms that he was, indeed, an American citizen — but not when the phone was invented.

Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved with his family to Brantford <Ontario> in August 1870 ...

... he and electrician Thomas Watson .. started working toward an instrument that could transfer speech ... inspired by a visit to Brantford, where Bell watched the currents in the Grand River and wondered whether he could transmit sound by controlling a current’s intensity ...

Bell would be granted a U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876 ...

He became a naturalized American citizen in 1882 ...

https://globalnews.ca/news/5462699/donald-trump-alexander-graham-bell/

[SunSeeker]

1. Regardless, he was an immigrant when he invented the telephone.

Part of a long line of immigrants helping us lead in innovation.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. When TV did "the Greatest ..." lists, Bell was the only person to appear for 3 countries

Despite this, Bell achievements were such that he was publicly voted by TV audiences to be among the 100 Greatest Britons in 2002, the top-ten Greatest Canadians in 2004, and the 100 Greatest Americans 2005. Bell was the only person to be included on more than one of those lists.

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/alexandergrahambell.html

[struggle4progress]

3. I think he eventually had triple citizenship

[frazzled]

4. And yet, for a long time, starting in the 1930s and 40s

the slang for telephone was not "Bell" but "Ameche" (after the actor Don Ameche, who played the inventor in the movie biopic).

"Ring me on the Ameche!" (my spouse still likes to say that, jokingly).