At first, he was just Alexander Bell. When he turned ten though, he begged his parents to give him a middle name like they had given to each of his brothers. It wasn't until his 11th birthday that the famous "Graham" was added to his name. His father chose the name in honor of a family friend, Alexander Graham, who had boarded with the family.
Both his mother and wife were deaf, which gave him even more reason to be dedicated to easing systems of communication.
He finished his first invention, a dehusking device for a flour mill, when he was only 12.
When Bell entered the Royal High School, he was known for having bad grades and a history of absenteeism. He excelled at science but remained indifferent to all other courses. Eventually, he dropped out at only 15 and then moved to London, where he lived with his grandfather, who was able to finally get Bell interested in learning.
Before he invented the phone, Bell was a teacher. He used his father's teaching system to educate deaf students. One of his most famous students was Helen Keller, who once said that Bell had dedicated his life to breaking through the "inhuman silence which separates and estranges."
Later in his life, he earned a series of honorary degrees from quite a few colleges, including Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the University of Würzburg in Bavaria, and more.
Bell's first work with what would later result in the invention of the telephone started when he was hired, along with Elisha Gray, to help find a way to send multiple telegraph messages along the same line.
After Bell finished his work on the telephone, he offered to sell the patent for the device to Western Union for $100,000. The president of the company refused, claiming that the telephone was nothing more than a toy.
While his most famous invention was the phone, Bell continued to invent throughout his life. He worked on optical telecommunications, hydrofoil planes, and aeronautics. In 1880, he created the photophone, which he considered to be his most important invention. This creation would allow sound to pass through a beam of light and was the first wireless phone technology ever created.
While the telephone was Bell's best-known contribution to society, he considered his real work to be as a scientist and he refused to have a telephone in his study for fear it would intrude on his work.
Bell and his team had considered the idea of pressing a magnetic field onto a record as a way to reproduce sound. While they couldn't get their idea to work, this same concept was the basic idea behind tapes, hard discs, floppy discs, and other media that were invented almost a century later.
Alexander Graham Bell died in August of 1922. Every phone in North America was said to be silenced during his funeral in his honor.
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3Both his mother and wife were deaf, which gave him even more reason to be dedicated to easing systems of communication.
He finished his first invention, a dehusking device for a flour mill, when he was only 12.
When Bell entered the Royal High School, he was known for having bad grades and a history of absenteeism. He excelled at science but remained indifferent to all other courses. Eventually, he dropped out at only 15 and then moved to London, where he lived with his grandfather, who was able to finally get Bell interested in learning.
Before he invented the phone, Bell was a teacher. He used his father's teaching system to educate deaf students. One of his most famous students was Helen Keller, who once said that Bell had dedicated his life to breaking through the "inhuman silence which separates and estranges."
Later in his life, he earned a series of honorary degrees from quite a few colleges, including Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the University of Würzburg in Bavaria, and more.
Bell's first work with what would later result in the invention of the telephone started when he was hired, along with Elisha Gray, to help find a way to send multiple telegraph messages along the same line.
After Bell finished his work on the telephone, he offered to sell the patent for the device to Western Union for $100,000. The president of the company refused, claiming that the telephone was nothing more than a toy.
While his most famous invention was the phone, Bell continued to invent throughout his life. He worked on optical telecommunications, hydrofoil planes, and aeronautics. In 1880, he created the photophone, which he considered to be his most important invention. This creation would allow sound to pass through a beam of light and was the first wireless phone technology ever created.
While the telephone was Bell's best-known contribution to society, he considered his real work to be as a scientist and he refused to have a telephone in his study for fear it would intrude on his work.
Bell and his team had considered the idea of pressing a magnetic field onto a record as a way to reproduce sound. While they couldn't get their idea to work, this same concept was the basic idea behind tapes, hard discs, floppy discs, and other media that were invented almost a century later.
Alexander Graham Bell died in August of 1922. Every phone in North America was said to be silenced during his funeral in his honor.
From India, Madras
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