Alexander Graham Bell

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922

EARLY LIFE

Until the 19^th century, it was more difficult to communicate with friends and family. Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a Scottish American inventor, and also a teacher for the deaf students. He was inspired to learn how to communicate with the hearing impaired because of his mother who was a deaf. As a child, Bell was fascinated by the art of communication.

THE IDEA OF THE TELEPHONE

After college, Bell worked with his father to help enhance the hearing of deaf students. He taught the students by using his father’s system of visible speech, speaking using the lips and tongue. In 1875, Bell invented the first version of the telephone. Bell was fascinated with the new invention the telegraph and how it could send messages through metal wires as electro lights.

He then wonder if he was able to send the human voice as electro lights. Indeed, he figured out the human voice had vibrations and was able to transfer messages through wires. On March 12, 1876, Bell tested the device by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”. His associate with Thomas Watson, successfully received the message.

In 1877, Bell started the first telephone company, and he was known to run the first long distance line. The line connected from Boston to New York. By 1889, the company had 11,000 underground wires running under New York. Bell was not interested in becoming a business man, so he left Mr. Hubbard and Sanders in charge of Bell’s Telephone Company. And Bell decided to dedicate the rest of his life as a scientist and inventor of running the phone company.