Alexander Graham Bell
The aim of this research paper is to give the history of Alexander Graham Bell, centering on his life, education, and the invention of the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland and died on August 2, 1922, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Alexander Graham Bell in his early years was home schooled by his deaf mother until high school age. Bell then attended Royal High School (1858-1862), Weston House Academy (1863-1864), University of Edinburgh (1864-1865). In 1865 Alexander and his family moved from Scotland to London and there he attended the University College London (1868-1870). July 1870 the family settled in Brantford, Ontario, Canada due to the loss of two of Alexander’s brothers to tuberculosis. His father believed America’s environment was healthier. In 1872, Alexander Graham Bell went to Boston, Massachusetts where he tutored deaf children. Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first official patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Alexander Graham Bell having a mother who was deaf and later marrying a deaf student from the school where he tutored named Mabel
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In 1877, construction of the first regular telephone line from Boston to Somerville, Massachusetts was completed. By the end of 1880, there were 47,900 telephones in the United States. Transcontinental service by overhead wires wasn’t until 1915. The convenience of having a telephone can help police, firefighters, and medical crews receive reports of accidents and fires faster and possibly save lives. Telephone styles have changed and more functions were added over the years from rotary dial phones to touch-tone buttons. By the 1970’s the first cordless telephone was introduced and today there are wireless cell phones that people can carry with them almost anywhere in the
Telephone popularity saw an increase in the early 1900's. The telephone began to appear all over the place. The telephone began to be looked upon as a necessity, "By this time the telephone was settling into national consciousness as a fixed and permanent part of American life."2 The telephone allowed people to interact with other types of individuals, and this ability intrigued the American public. The telephone made it possible for contact to take place with people who normally can not because of being apart by large distances. People want to communicate quickly with others, and the telephone makes this happen. By this time the telephone was not a luxury good, but necessary for survival. Cities especially, saw the telephone as an essential part of society; "Literally telephone service is a life-and-death matter to the citizens of every urban community in America."3 Although the telephone was popular in cities, it was surprisingly popular in the rural Midwest. The telephone created a need to know what took place in the world. The Midwest was not as densely populated and the telephone developed an excellent way to communicate the news of the day amongst surrounding communities. Before, one would have to rely on the news spreading via word
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was raised by his mother Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was nearly deaf, but was an accomplished pianist and encouraged Alexander to undertake big challenges, and his father Alexander Melville Bell. Alexander Graham Bell was one of three children and was home-schooled until age 11. He did not do very well in school academically, but he did enjoy science and had a great ability to solve problems. Growing up, Alexander became very interested in his father’s business, which focused on oral education for the deaf. The business focused on Visual Speech, which was a system of symbols to aid people in speaking words in any language even if they had never heard it before. Alexander Graham Bell had high hopes for oral education and communication, and wanted to learn more about it. During his college years, Alexander Graham Bell received his education from the University of London where he studied under his grandfather who was a noted speech teacher.
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
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd, 1847. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He went to Edinburgh Royal High School when he was eleven years old. Bell had left school when he was fifteen, he never actually graduated. He also attended the University of London for college but his time in college was cut short due to him and his family moving to Canada in the 1870s also causing him to not fully graduate from college as well. They left to Canada because they had lost two children to tuberculosis already. They thought that the only way they could keep Bell from getting tuberculosis and losing him to it as well they had to leave their home in England.
Alexander Graham Bell was a phenomenal inventor, he invented the telephone because he wanted something better than a telegraph that only sent two telegrams at once. He hypothesized different methods until he discovered a reed did the job. Bell also invented a metal detector, a breathing machine, and an audiometer. He always had the interests of other people in his inventions. He created the breathing machine to help people with breathing problems and the audiometer for those who had hearing problems. Bell was very companionate about helping people with hearing problems. He said that all his inventions could not compare towards his work he had done in Boston School for the Deaf. Bell believed that everyone should keep fighting through their
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 3, 1847, he was taught by his mother until going to a local academy and finally the Edinburgh Royal High School. One day, when he was only 12, Mr. Bell was playing at a flour mill. The boring task of de-husking wheat motivated him to invent a wheat grain de-husker. The machine was used for several years at the mill.
Telephones do have many advantages over modern IP systems, which rely heavily on an active data system base. According to Jennifer Water landlines give emergency personnel the exact address of where the call is placed versus a wireless system that contains errors (). Having an accurate GPS system allows emergency personnel to find out where the call is coming from and assist them quickly. Using a wireless system causes a great deal of errors and requires the emergency dispatch coordinator to use a satellite to pinpoint your exact position if one can’t be obtained.
Honor means to have high respect and esteem. Honor to me means, respecting others and their accomplishments. Alexander Graham Bell was one of the main inventors of the telephone, he also did important work in communication for the deaf and held more than 18 patents. He was honored for his work with the telephone and also continuing and going further with his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Along with Thomas Watson, they designed the first practical telephone. During his life, he received multiple awards. A few of the major ones include, The Volta Prize of 50,000 Francs, The UK Society of Arts’ Albert Medal, and The IEEE established in 1976 The Alexander Graham Bell Medal. He has also been honored many ways. Some of his honors
Possibly one of the most widely known whisky blends, Bell’s was formed by Arthur Bell in the 1850’s, however his introduction to whisky came much earlier.
Alexander G. Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburg, Scotland and died on August 2, 1922 on Cape Brenton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada. His education included the University College in London, Edinburg University, and Royal High school. His job included an Educator, Scientist, Inventor, and Linguist. He had two brothers, Melville and Edward Bell, sadly they both died in the womb due to a disease called tuberculosis. His mother- who was half deaf- became a pianist - a great one at that- which inspired him to take on massive challenges. His father and grandfather were very good at Elocution.
Although not an American born citizen, Alexander Graham Bell can be credited as an American innovator due to his American patented acoustic telegraph, or, more widely known as the telephone. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1847 was Alexander Bell. Throughout much of his young schooling Bell received fairly grades and remained only interested in the sciences. The primary influence for his research in acoustics came from his deaf mother whom he learned to communicate with despite her inability to hear. After the death of his brother, Bell and his family moved to Canada. There he continued his experiments with the harmonic telegraph, a device in which messages could be sent through a single wire. This proved difficult for Bell because much work
The Destiny of the Republic has taught me many things. Alexander Graham Bell struggled with people claiming themselves as the inventor of the telephone. “When [a] company began to attack Bell personally, suggesting that… [he] had stolen the idea, he set aside his hatred of lawsuits and fought back” (Millard 79). When a company tried to steal his invention and besmirch his name, Bell fought back and won. Bell taught me to always fight for what I believe in. I will do this by becoming informed about topics that are important to me, so that I can fight for my stance. I will gather more information about abortion, gun control, immigration, and many other topics so that I can defend my stance. Bell’s backbone and resistance has also taught me not to let anyone bully me or push me around. Bell stood up for himself and did not let his
Early in 1874 Bell met Thomas A. Watson, a young machinist at a Boston electrical shop. Watson became Bell’s indispensable assistant, bringing to Bell’s experiments the crucial ingredient that had been lacking, his technical expertise in electrical engineering. Together the two men spent endless hours experimenting (Paschoff 43,44). Although Bell formed the basic concept of the telephone using a varying but unbroken electric current to transmit the varying sound waves of human speech, in the summer of 1874, Hubbard insisted that the young inventor focus his efforts on the harmonic telegraph instead. Bell wanted to continue his work on the telephone but he complied. When he patented one of his telegraph designs in February 1875, he found that Elisha Gray had patented a multiple telegraph two days earlier. Greatly discouraged, Bell consulted in Washington with the elderly Joseph Henry, who urged Bell to pursue his “germ of a great invention” speech transmission (Grosvenor and Wesson 55).
Cell phones, as we know them haven’t been around for that long. The quick progression of the item and development has enormously influenced the regular daily existence in the general public eye today. It 's implementation has been genuinely quick considering that mobile phones were inexistent a quarter century ago. The first phone was made by Alexander Graham Bell. According to an article, ' 'This brought upon a major change in communication and gave leeway to the improvement of the telephone in the days to come ' '(Bellis, 2013b).
Following the time when the mid 1980s, phones have been rapidly moving their route into our commonplace lives, particularly with the presentation of cam telephones in the early part of the new thousand years. As cells develop they have more of an effect on our commonplace lives and I need to exactly how much they are affecting. Similarly as with new engineering in whatever other structure, phones have changed enormously over their generally short life compasses. As these progressions happen, so does the populaces like and here and there loathe for these new advanced cells. One of the real issues happening with cell telephones in present day times is that individuals use them at wrong times, for example, when they are looking at of a market. Despite the fact that there are a couple negative perspectives about phones, my exploration and my paper are going to mostly the profits of Pdas in the United States of America. My exploration concentrates on a few key regions in wireless correspondence, for example, the advancement of Pdas, content informing, Pdas and other PDA applications and in addition my own particular exploration including a overview that I dispersed to some of my colleagues.