Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper – 1559 Words | Bartleby

Image how different the world would be without phones. Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell’s story that consists of his personal life and schooling, the invention of the telephone ,innovations of the telephone, and his other accomplishments, the world does not have to go without phones. The incredibly important story of Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone is a story that must be told and listened to. Alexander’s story would not have been the same without his personal life and schooling. Alexander was born Alexander Bell on March third 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander later acquired the middle name “Graham.” Alexander had a nickname that his family called him . His nickname was Alec. Alexander suffered with diabetes and anemia

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Alexander’s interest in speech and sound , which caused him to end up inventing the telephone, grow over the years since Alec was very young. Alexander spent many years, actually more like the majority of his life, learning about speech and sound, and helping deaf people to speak. Alec even taught children Visible Speech and how to read lips. Before Bell was granted the telephone’s patient, there were arguments about it in the newspapers and in courts. However, eventually Alec was granted the patient for the telephone. The day of the patient being granted to Alec was March 7, 1876 . In October 1876 the first call occurred, the call was between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson . The first telephone message , that was said on that fateful day was “Mr. Watson-Come Here- I want to see you.” The first coast to coast call was made from New York to San Francisco, in 1915. The first cross country call was between Mr. Bell in New York and Mr. Watson in San Francisco. The company we all know as AT&T or American Telephone and Telegraph was originally called Bell Telephone Company. The word telephone comes from the Greek language, “tele” meaning “from a long distance” and “phone” meaning “voice.” Another name for the telephone is the “talking telegraph.” It may have took a lot of hard work, but the telephone ended up being worth it

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Alec and his brothers did experiments in speech an sound. Alec and his brother Melville actually worked together to create a Talking Machine and succeeded. In 1880, Bell won the Volta Prize for his work with deaf people. Bell uses the money from the Volta Prize to set up a laboratory, the Volta Laboratory. After losing a son to lung problems, Bell invented a vacuum jacket, an invention that helped people breath. Alec also invented the Bell’s bullet probe in a fruitless attempt to save President Garfield’s life. The bullet probe was invented in 1881, and although it did not save President Garfield’s life, it went on to save many others, until the invention of the x-ray. Alexander was also a teacher when he was only fifteen years old, at Weston House Academy, while he was going to the University of Edinburgh , in 1863. Bell also had from a very young age , an interest in flight. Bell had been involved in forming the Aerial Experiment Association or AEA, in 1907. Bell and Mabel had helped with the creation of the Silver Dart , which was launched from a frozen lake in 1909. Bell’s inventions helped contribute to safer landing gear and flight control equipment. Bell become president for the National Geographic Society in 1898, and made it the first magazine with a lot of photos. Bell also created the hydrofoil in 1919, the hydrofoil moved faster than a train. Bell had many