Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, is he the founder of the company, Bell??
He received a patent for the telephone in 1877, but he sold most of the Canadian rights to the patent to his father, Melville Bell. In 1879 Melville sold the rights to National Bell Telephone Company in Boston, and thus officially became one of the first regional operating companies of what was to become the Bell System. Charles Fleetford Sise, a Chicago businessman, was brought in as general manager, and The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd. was founded in 1880. So even though he invented the telephone, and the company has his name, he did not really found Bell Canada.
