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Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone Pioneer

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the first successful telephone. Born in 1847, Bell showed an early interest in sounds due to his parents' deafness. After moving to the United States in 1872, Bell began experimenting with transmitting speech electrically after studying the work of German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz. In 1876, Bell was able to transmit the first intelligible telephone message by transmitting vibrations in water through a wire to his assistant Thomas Watson. Bell's telephone invention laid the foundation for modern telephone communications networks.

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Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone Pioneer

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the first successful telephone. Born in 1847, Bell showed an early interest in sounds due to his parents' deafness. After moving to the United States in 1872, Bell began experimenting with transmitting speech electrically after studying the work of German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz. In 1876, Bell was able to transmit the first intelligible telephone message by transmitting vibrations in water through a wire to his assistant Thomas Watson. Bell's telephone invention laid the foundation for modern telephone communications networks.

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Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and


innovator.

Born in 1847

Credited with patenting the first successful telephone

Due to his mother and father both being deaf,

Bell was very interested in sounds

Bell was homeschooled and then sent to the


Royal High School at age 15
Only completed 4 terms due to

his constant absence

At age 25, Bell moved to the United States &

opened School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics


of Speech in Boston, MA

This is where he taught deaf people to speak

HOW DID BELL BEGIN?


Bell became interested in German scientist,
Hermann von Helmholtz. He began to study his
work but since he did not speak German he
worked off of the diagrams that Helmholtz had
created.
Helmholtz had been able to successfully vowel
sounds to electricity but not all sounds of
speechthis prompted Bell to try!
Using electrical telegraph lines already in
existence, Bell set out to transmit human
speech, through sound waves, rather than just
Morse code.

PATENT
In 1875, Bell and his investors decided that it was time for Bell
to patent his ideas.
Bells patent was for transmission of speech over an
electrical wire.

HOW AND WHEN?


In 1876, Bell had advanced his work to the point where he was able to
transmit sounds using a method that involved a needle vibrating in water,
which caused the electrical current to change. The change in current was
what transmitted the sound. It was this water-based device that Bell used to
utter the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant,
Thomas Watson (Bellis, 2015). This is considered the first ever phone call.

Despite having similar designs and ideas to Elisha Gray, Bell is given
the credit of inventing the very first telephone .

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR TODAY?


Alexander Graham Bells invention of the telephone paved the
road for the phone communications we rely on today.
Without his contributions, the cellular network we know
today would possibly be drastically different.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born
with - a man is what he makes of himself.
-Alexander Bell

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