He was simply the most amazing man to the world, and also probably the most intelligent to anyone since he did invent the telephone of course. The guy who invented the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was born to a family of speech educators. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father's name was Alexander Melville Bell. Melville invented visible speech, which is a code of symbols for all spoken sounds that was used in teaching deaf people to speak. Graham also invented the graphophone, which is for recording sound on wax cylinders or disks; he also invented the photophone, for transmitting speech on a beam of light; an audio meter, which is an aid for the deaf; a telephone probe, used in surgery until the discovery of the x-ray; an induction balance, for detecting metal within the human body. Bell also worked on the transmission of the human voice, experimenting with vibrating membranes and an actual human ear.
After Bell’s 2 brothers died of tuberculosis, his father moved his family to the healthier climate of Canada in 1870. "From 1868 to 1870 Bell assisted his father at the University College in London. Soon after that Bell became interested in the study of sound and the mechanics of speech, inspired in part by the acoustic experiments of German physicist Hermann Von Helmholtz, which gave him the idea of telegraphing speech." In 1871 Bell went to Sarah Fuller’s school for the deaf, it was the first such school in the world. In 1872, he opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf; by 1873 he had become a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University and was also tutoring private pupils. He was backed financially in his investigations by Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders; they were fathers of 2 of his deaf pupils. After Bell got married to the daughter of Gardiner Hubbard, (Mabel Hubbard); Bell sailed to England to promote the telephone.
On June 2, 1875, the critical break through on the telephone ACCIDENTLY came about while they were working on the telegraph. Bell sketched a design for an electric telephone and Watson built it. Hubbard finally filed for the patent on February 14, 1876, just hours before Gray. Their greatest competitor, Gray, appeared at the same patent office to file an intent to patent his own telephone design. Bell’s patent was granted on March 7, 1876. Three days later (March 10, 1876) Bell tested a new transmitter (Watson was in the other room). Watson heard Bell clearly say “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!” It was the first message transmitted by telephone. Later on they took the telephone design to Dom-Pedro. He was astonished and said “My God-it talks!” Together with financial backers, Hubbard and Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company(which is now AT&T) in 1877. Countering with improved transmitters, invented by German born American inventor Emile Berliner and Francis Blake; The Bell Company sued Western Union for patent infringement. The suit was settled—in Bells favor in 1879. In 1880, the French Government awarded Bell the Volta prize for his achievement in sound technology. Bell experimented with development of the harmonic telegraph—a device that could send multiple messages over a single wire.
Do you think it's true that Bell really didn't invent the telephone? A Scottish-born immigrant says he conducted the first telephone conversation in Boston, even though people still give credit to Alexander Graham Bell. U.S. writer Seth Shulman argues that the Canadian hero stole the phones key technology break through from American inventor Elisha Gray. Later on everyone found out that the first long distance telephone call (Brantford to Paris, Ontario) occurred in Canada.
After Bell’s 2 brothers died of tuberculosis, his father moved his family to the healthier climate of Canada in 1870. "From 1868 to 1870 Bell assisted his father at the University College in London. Soon after that Bell became interested in the study of sound and the mechanics of speech, inspired in part by the acoustic experiments of German physicist Hermann Von Helmholtz, which gave him the idea of telegraphing speech." In 1871 Bell went to Sarah Fuller’s school for the deaf, it was the first such school in the world. In 1872, he opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf; by 1873 he had become a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University and was also tutoring private pupils. He was backed financially in his investigations by Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders; they were fathers of 2 of his deaf pupils. After Bell got married to the daughter of Gardiner Hubbard, (Mabel Hubbard); Bell sailed to England to promote the telephone.
On June 2, 1875, the critical break through on the telephone ACCIDENTLY came about while they were working on the telegraph. Bell sketched a design for an electric telephone and Watson built it. Hubbard finally filed for the patent on February 14, 1876, just hours before Gray. Their greatest competitor, Gray, appeared at the same patent office to file an intent to patent his own telephone design. Bell’s patent was granted on March 7, 1876. Three days later (March 10, 1876) Bell tested a new transmitter (Watson was in the other room). Watson heard Bell clearly say “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!” It was the first message transmitted by telephone. Later on they took the telephone design to Dom-Pedro. He was astonished and said “My God-it talks!” Together with financial backers, Hubbard and Sanders, formed the Bell Telephone Company(which is now AT&T) in 1877. Countering with improved transmitters, invented by German born American inventor Emile Berliner and Francis Blake; The Bell Company sued Western Union for patent infringement. The suit was settled—in Bells favor in 1879. In 1880, the French Government awarded Bell the Volta prize for his achievement in sound technology. Bell experimented with development of the harmonic telegraph—a device that could send multiple messages over a single wire.
Do you think it's true that Bell really didn't invent the telephone? A Scottish-born immigrant says he conducted the first telephone conversation in Boston, even though people still give credit to Alexander Graham Bell. U.S. writer Seth Shulman argues that the Canadian hero stole the phones key technology break through from American inventor Elisha Gray. Later on everyone found out that the first long distance telephone call (Brantford to Paris, Ontario) occurred in Canada.
Bell helped establish Science Magazine and the National Geographic Society. Bell also invented the tetrahedral kite, which is capable of carrying a human being. He also designed a hydrofoil boat that set the world water speed record in 1918. In Baddeck, Bell built a second house for his wife and him to use as a summer/vacation home. He called it “Beinn Bhreagh.” Much of his inventing was done here. On August 2, 1922, Bell died in his summer/vacation home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
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