All in all, the telephone is an essential tool in home and businesses. It’s most dramatic effect was on writing and teaching. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell on February 12, 1877 in a New York patent office. (Lewis, 31-33) There were many steps in creating this great invention but it was all worth it. America and also the whole world now has a way of communication that revolutionized their practices as well as their lives.
Bliss introduces her essay with some historical background of Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone to begin with her thoughts of the telephone throughout the essay. Bell’s financial backers advised him not to work on the invention, as it seemed too doubtful,
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
What Was the Process of Going Through Ellis Island like?Topic: Ellis Island Question: What Was the Process of Going Through Ellis Island like?Thesis: The process was very long and hard and some were not even able to go through. Ellis Island was a symbol of hope for many immigrants who dreamed of coming to America to have a better life. Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, opened the Island as an immigration center. Many immigrants were processed through Ellis Island, about 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry back to Ellis Island.1
The telephone completely changed how we communicate. Alexander Bell was a professor at Boston University when he built a device that allowed people to see speech in the form of sound-wave vibrations. This made Mr. Bell believe that somehow he could make sound waves turn into an electrical current and back into sound waves. After lots of studying electricity and conducting lots
The telephone was invented in 1870 by Gray and Bell, who then battled over the true inventor of the telephone, which Bell won. Bell then began experimenting with electrical signs, which brought the telegraph to be an established means of communication (Bellis). In 1876, Bell made his first call to Thomas A. Watson in March. People thought Bell’s invention was a toy, but later people wanted a phone installed in their homes, towns, or
Bell gets a lot of the credit for inventing the telephone but there are also a bunch of other people that contributed to the process of inventing it. Graham Bell was the first to patent the invention of the telephone though. It as a very confusing thing to deal with. It was a confusing collection of counterclaims and claims. It was made even more confusing with the lawsuit trying to resolve the patent claims of many individuals.
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3rd – August 2nd, 1922 a Scottish-born scientist) demonstrated the first practical telephone in 1876, when the world was not quite waiting for the telephone and had a hard time accepting the invention. Biss opens the essay with a quote “Of what use is such an invention?”, line 1. The quote appeared in The New York World, shortly after the presentation of Bell´s telephone. In this part, Biss seems ironic, as she has chosen to use that exact quote in an essay published in 2008. There is no doubt; The telephone had already made a great impact on us back in 2008 and most of us probably think of it as a tool we cannot live without. A telephone has become a matter of course in any household throughout most of the world and we definitely find the telephone of great use. In the 1870´s, people did not really understand the purpose of the telephone and even the idea of a national telephone network seemed useless, line 5-8. People were not informed about the benefits of having a
After working for his dad for a while Bell meet someone by the name of Thomas Watson, and they soon became partners. They worked on a design of the “first practical telephone.” “On March 10, 1876, Bell and Watson were successful.” After the long hard days of working on the design they had done it. They had made the first telephone. That was one of the biggest impacts on the world anybody could have ever done. People saw how smart Alexander Graham Bell was by making all of these inventions. They also saw what a great man he
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
Here is some information on the inventor of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born on 3 March 1847 and died on 2 August 1922. He was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. He invented the Telephone, Photophone, Hydrofoil, Audiometer, HD-4, Metal detector, Tetrahedral kite. One of his most famous quotes is When one door closes another door opens; but we
House of Representatives credited Antonio Meucci with his contribution to making the telephone. Five years before Alexander Graham Bell got his telephone patented in eighteen seventy-one Meucci invented the telephone and patented it. He could not pay to refresh the patent so Alexander could patent his telephone. After that Meucci sued Alexander saying that he stole his idea. He didn’t win the case because he died before it was over and Alexander kept the patent. Another thing that he invented was the metal detector and he used it to try and save President James Garfield in eighteen eighty-one after he got shot in an assassination. Sadly he could not save his life and the President died. Alexander Graham Bell also experimented with kites and flying machines throughout his life. Alexander got ten thousand dollars for winning France’s Volta Prize. Alexander later used that money to make the Volta Laboratory in Washington D.C. One of the first things that Alexander invented after the telephone was the photophone. Alexander used the photophone to send a message over two hundred yards to another building. Alexander said that the photophone was the greatest invention that he ever made, and it was even better than the telephone. He also worked with genetic engineering and tried to make sheep have twins and triplets more often. The year that Alexander tried to save President Garfield, his newborn son died as a result of respiratory problems. After that
The currency of the article is very recent and can still be useful in my paper because of how long ago the telephone was invented. The purpose of this article seems to educate children on the history of the telephone. I chose this article because it was a short general summary on the history of the telephone and about Alexander Graham Bell. This article did not provide all the details I needed for my paper but was good overview of information I could use in my paper.
From their origins to 1500, the attitudes of both Christian and Muslims toward trade shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning, Christian attitudes were more negative, while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants (at least honest ones) with doing God’s work, reflecting the changed importance of trade in the high Middle Ages in Europe.
Because they realized the significance of Bell’s ideas, Alexander Bell’s investors filed a patent on his idea. Now no one could steal Bell’s idea because it was copyrighted and protected. On March 10, 1876, only two years after Bell and Watson became a duo and started working on the transferring voice device, Bell and Watson had successfully achieved their goal in creating a voice transferring device. However, this was achieved by accident. Bell clumsily knocked over a container that contained transmitting fluid, and spilled it all over his wires. He heard the box that the wires were attached to making noises and shouted for Watson to come in the room. Watson was in the other room when the accident had occurred and when Bell had yelled for him to come see, Watson heard Bell through the box that his wires were attached to. Thus, Watson received the very first telephone call from
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).