Bell Telephone Memorial

Coordinates: 43°8'28?N 80°16'5?W? / ?43.14111°N 80.26806°W? / 43.14111; -80.26806 The Bell Telephone Memorial, also known as the Bell Memorial, is a monument commemorating the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in July 1874 at his parents' home, Melville House, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. In 1906, the citizens of the Brantford and Brant County areas formed the Bell Memorial Association. In 1908, the association's designs committee asked sculptors on two continents to submit proposals for the memorial.