Summary:
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847. He had died in the year 1922. He was the inventor of alot of things. The one he is most known for is the telephone...
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847.He had died at the age of 75 in the year 1922. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He went to University of London to learn anatomy and physiology, but his college time was cut short when his family moved to Canada in 1870. He had a deaf mother which she was a musician and a painter of portraits. Alexander's father had taught deaf people how to speak and made an invention called " Visible Speech." It's a system that shows how the tongue, lips, and throat were placed to make the speech sounds. Bell, or "Aleck", as his family called him also wanted to work with deaf through out his life time.
Alexander had gone to school for 5 years. He had gone from the age of 10 to about the age of 14. He never stops learning. He always got books from his grandfathers library.
Alexander and his brother Melly made an invention of a dead sheep calling out the word "mama:" This machine shaped a more of an interest to human words and how it works.
When Bell was in his 20's his two brothers had died from tuberculosis.Alexander also had this disease. So his father had tried to move the family to Canada to a better climate. After a while Bell had recovered from this disease.
He went to Boston about two years later and set up a school for teachers of deaf. He had then became a professor at Boston University.
Alexander had met a girl 10 years younger than him named Mabel Hubbard. She had been deaf since the age of four do to scarlet fever. Five years later those two had gotten married. They spent there year long honey moon in Europe.
They had 3 sons together. Alexander also had a business of his own at this point in time called Bell Telephone Company. Bell's telephone grew
out of improvements he made to the telegraph. He had made the "harmonic telegraph" which could send more than one letter at a time over a single telegraph wire. Bell reasonable it would be likely to pick up and transmit the sound of the human voice using an edition of his "harmonic telegraph." In 1875, along with his helper Thomas A. Watson, Bell made things that transmitted familiar voice-like sounds. On February 14, 1876 Bell had finally got his speaking telephone patented. The Bell Telephone
Company wanted to protect their patent rights so they sued Western Union and won. Years after this the Bell Company would be required to
defend its patent in over 600 legal challenges. His telephone was patented in 1876 and 1877.
In 1881 he used the $10,000 prize for winning France's Volta Prize to set up the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Bell worked with his two cousins, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter. They also invented the photophone. It is a device that enabled sound to be transmitted on a beam of light. Charles and Bell used a sensitive selenium rock and a reflector that would shake in vibrate to a noise. Bell had thought this was a better invention than the telephone.
In 1881 Bells new born son Edward had died from respiratory problems.Bell responded to this disaster by inventing a metal vacuum jacket that would facilitate breathing. This was used in the 1950s to aid polio sufferers.
By 1909, the group had created four powered aircraft, the best of which, the Silver Dart, made the first successful motorized flight in Canada on February 23, 1909.
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