The Legendary inventor Alexander Graham Bell

Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

Best known as the inventor of the telephone but he also worked with deaf
and also some of the worlds earliest airplanes. Taught Visible Speech (his
fathers speech methods of teaching the deaf) in Boston University. He is the
son of Alexander Melville and Eliza Grace Symonds.
What encouraged him to invent things?
He was not an electrician nor did he have any experience with making
electrical gadgets. Infect he was an expert in philosophy and anatomy but
he had edge cutting interest in how the human ear works. He even worked
with real human ears and cadavers which were supplied by one of his
fathers doctor friend. It was the understanding and the learning about how
the human ears works helped to invent the telephone.
Where was he born?
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in March 3rd 1847.
When did he move to Canada?
In August 1, 1870, at age 23 Bell moved to Canada with his family. First
landed in Quebec then later they settled near Brantford, Ontario at a country
cottage, now known as Tutela Heights.
How did he come up with idea of telephone?
As his father Professor Alexander Melville Bell worked with the deaf, he
invented the visible speech (a method to teach the deaf). Later in Boston
University he taught his fathers methods and working with the human voice
gave him the idea transmitting speech electrically and thats what led him to
invent the telephone.
What other things did he do besides inventing?
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A human with the lack ability to express themselves by using oral
communication was pretty much useless to the society.
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The Legendary inventor Alexander Graham Bell

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Alexander Graham Bell is widely known for his greatest invention, the
telephone. He was a well experienced teacher to the deaf, a scientist and a
very inquiring inventor. Not only was Bell the inventor of the telephone but
he also had a major experience with some of the earliest airplanes and had
many outstanding methods and ideas on educating the deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3 rd
1847. He was the second son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace
Symonds. In 1870, at the age of 23 the young Scottish inventor moved to
Canada with his family. They first landed in Quebec City and then later they
settled near Brantford, Ontario at a country cottage, now known as Tutela
Heights.
His father Alexander Melville Bell was a professor and the inventor of visible
Speech. This is a type of phonetic alphabet system, which is composed of
various symbols that shows the positions and movement of the tongue,
throat and lips as they make sounds of languages. This novel method was
created to teach the deaf to speak. Alexander Graham Bell learned his
fathers methods of visible speech and assisted him to give demonstration of
this idea to the general public. Afterward, Bell took courses at University
College in London, England, on anatomy and physiology, or more commonly
study on functioning and physical structure of human body. As he learned
and displayed his fathers techniques to the world he mastered it to the
point that later he improved upon his fathers creation using his prior
knowledge. Ultimately Bell became one of the exceptional characters of his
generation on the education of the deaf.

Alexander Melville Bell

Visible Speech

Alexander Graham Bell

Until he died he saw himself as a teacher to the deaf. There were

many doctors in his family and that pushed his attention to the physical and
psychological structure of the human nature. Especially after working with
his fathers techniques of the visible speech he became more interested in
how humans interact with each other by using the sense of hearing and by
using speech. As his interest of how the humans hear and interact with each
other grew more and more his innovative improved ideas of teaching a deaf
to speak without the use of manual sign language led him to teach the deaf
in schools. Later on, in 1872, he opened his own school where deaf children
were taught to speak. Teaching a deaf to learn the language was a brilliant
idea in North America. A human with the lack ability to express themselves
by using oral communication was pretty much useless to the society. From
the experiments from schools like Bells, using the oral techniques to teach
the deaf progressed very quickly. By the end of the century there was more
and more of schools were built where they taught the deaf to speak orally.
Later in early 1873 Bell joined the University of Boston as a professor of
vocal physiology. There he thought his fathers speech methods.
Bell was not an electrician nor did he have any experience with making
electrical gadgets. Infect he was an expert in philosophy and anatomy but
he had an edge cutting interest in how the human ear works. He even
worked with real human ears and cadavers which were supplied by one of
his fathers doctor friend. It was the understanding and the learning about
how the human ears works gave him the idea that voice can be transmitted
through wire electrically. In 1874 Bell worked out his idea of telephone when
he was in his home in Brantford. In 1875, in Boston Bell developed the premodel of the telephone with his assistant Thomas A. Watson and for first
time transmitted sound through copper wire. But the sound was not as clear
as to be a well-defined word sound. On March 10, 1876 Bell and Watson

made a new model of the telephone as they used it to transmit the first clear
distinct sound of the human voice electrically over distance! Bell was
neither the only nor the first one to think up the idea of the telephone but
however he was the first on to successfully transmit sound through wire
electrically. Later on Bell and Watson developed the telephone and in
August of 1876 they made the worlds first long distance call between
Brantford and Paris, Ontario.

Bells life of invention just did not end with the telephone. His curious
mind on the world of science leads him to invent many other things. As Bell
went back and forth between Boston and Brantford because of his professor
status at Boston University, he spent most of his time in the States. And
soon he settled there and became an American citizen but he still had a land
in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. There in 1907 he formed the Aerial Experiment
Association. This institute was formed by some enthusiastic individuals who
were fascinated by flight and aviation and most of them devoted their life
build air crafts and flying machines. Around the year of 1907 Bell and the
fanatic team build man controlled kite called Cygnet. It was a man flying
kite that was flown by Lieutenant Thomas. E. Selfridge. After gliding throw
air for approximately seven minutes the kite crash landed in to water and
broke apart instantly due to some technical difficulties. On February 23,
1909 the team successfully built an engine powered flying machine called
the Silver Dart. This gasoline powered air craft had had a 40 horsepower
engine built by American engineer Glenn Curtiss. Silver Dart was the first
airplane to fly in Canada and in the British emperor.

J.A.D. McCurdy steers the "Silver Dart" over Baddeck Bay in the first airplane flight in Canada, 23 February 1909.

The image above shows Bell holding one of his kites.

The kite is made up of two hexagons.

The kite on the above is a huge twelve-sided

giant radial-winged kite.

Bell was a mastermind when came to inventing. He invented many

stupefying invention throughout his life. Bell invented the one of the worlds
earliest metal detector as he attempted to use it to locate the assassins
bullet in U.S. President James Garfields body. He developed a way to create
phonograph records out of wax. He invented the worlds one of the fastest
water vehicle of his time called the hydrofoil. Once when the worlds
greatest steamships use to get as far as 60km/h, Bells created HD-4
hydrofoil reached up to 114km/h as it dashed over the unruffled water of the
Lake Bras dor. Even though he was very attentive to the world of science in
the intervening time he sustained working with the deaf throughout his life.
Bell spent his final years of his life in his homestead at Baddeck. In August
2nd 1922, this pioneer inventor died at the age of 75.

Bells creation the HD-4 hydrofoil

Impact:
Not only Bell invented the telephone but he had a novel idea to make
business out of it. At that time the idea of telegraph became really popular
and soon it would be used in homes, offices, and in business place and Bell
was well aware of it. He thought that one day the telegraph wire would be
laid on houses like water or gas and friends and families would be gossiping
through telegraph without even leaving their homes. Bell realized it would
more convenient for the users if the telephone took place instead of the
telegraph as they can use their speech to interact with each other. He
consulted his idea with his father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard as he
incorporated his idea with Watson, Gardiner Hubbard, and Thomas Sanders,
his equipment supplier, to open the Bell Telephone Company of Boston in
1877. The next day Graham Bell assigned 75% of the Canadian rights of the
telephone to his father Melville Bell. If to be precise it was not Graham Bell
but his father Melville Bell who actually introduced the use of telephone to
the general public in Canada. Melville Bell offered a manufactured a product
but not service to the clients. At that time the telephone was made of wood
and had a shape of a wooden box or a butter stamp. The same device was
used as the transmitter and the receiver. In order to communicate they had
to move the device back and forth between their ear and mouth. Clients
had to lease the device at cost of $40 per year and it was their duty to
connect these prototypes of the telephone by themselves.

The early wooden box telephone

Brantford Ontario, in 1879. Streets were

invaded by poles and wires.

In 1879 Melville Bell decided to sell his rights to the telephone as

Melville and his wife were desperate to join their son in Washington D.C. All
the rights were sold to the National Bell of Boston, the owners of Graham
Bells patent in the United States. The president of the National Bell W.H.
Forbes chooses Charles Fleetford Sise, a Boston businessman as General
Manager to set up a national Canadian company. The Bell Telephone
Company of Canada was incorporated by the federal charter on April 29,
1880 and the head office was located in Montreal. By the end of the year of
1880 the Bell telephone company of Canada purchased all the existing
telephone interest in Canada, including those of the Dominion Telegraph
Company and Montreal Telegraph Company. The Bell telephone Company of
Canada offered services in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario,
Manitoba and in British Columbia. The Company had 150 employees and
had over 2100 subscribers.
The number of telephones in some cities in Canada:
Cities
Telephones
Montral
Toronto
Hamilton
Qubec
Ottawa
Others

546
353
181
79
230
711

Charles Fleetford Sise

Even though Bell was working really hard trying to spread the idea of
telephone to people, he continued working hard on developing the idea of
teaching the deaf to speak using his fathers visible speech. He travelled
place to places in the United States to give lectures and speeches on this
cause and to let people know that there is a solution to make the deaf fit in
the cultured society once and for all. As he went throughout the United
States he appealed to establish day-schools for the deaf. Eventually Bell
became well-known to the society for his work. More and more people
started to show up at his schools to be educated to speak, among them was
a little girl named Helen Keller. At the age of six, her father took her to
Washington D.C. where she was examined by Bell. After few years when she
was taught to read Brail, she was sent to a deaf school where she did not
only learned to speak English but also German and French. This charming
young girl later graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904. This gifted student
of Bell travelled around world to raise awareness for the blinds and deaf and
wrote many books.

Helen Keller graduated from

Radcliffe College in 1904.
Helen Keller holds her Oscar
award for the documentary,
"Helen Keller In Her Story",
circa 1954.

HELEN KELLER
Awarded by
President Lyndon B. Johnson
September 14, 1964
Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell

As Helen, there were many deaf students of Bell who were taught to
communicate and many of succeed in their life. When Bell first began his
career, only 40% of deaf children were taught to speak but later as more
people became aware of Bells occupation that number kept increasing. In
fact at the time of his death the number had increased to 80%.
Reveal:
It has been over seventy years from Bells death but even in this day
we could see the impact of his work. His greatest and most well-known
invention the telephone is now one of the important parts of our daily life.
The telephone has made communication way much easier. From business
places to homes, in just couple seconds we can communicate with families
and friends or do business transactions from anywhere in the world. Not only
that the telephone has increased the networking in our social life but it has
also reduced the distance among people as it brings our loved once more
closer. Nowadays a simple phone call can save a lot of lives as we can call
for help anytime when we are in danger. This source of good
communications helped urbanizing many countries, cities or even
communities that we see or live in today and as the time passes this source
of communication helps us to improve our growing community that we live
in. Even more the most substantial part of daily life the internet is getting
more common through the telephone. So as we can see without Bells
invention of the telephone we probably would not have accomplished many
of the things we see in this day and age in our society.