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Alexander Graham Bell Was An Influential Scientist, Engineer and Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist and inventor born in 1847 who is widely credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He experimented with devices related to sound and worked with his assistant Thomas Watson to develop acoustic telegraphy. On February 14, 1876, Bell was awarded a patent for the telephone, beating out rival inventor Elisha Gray. His first words spoken on the telephone were to Watson. By 1886 over 150,000 telephones were in use in the United States. Bell made many other contributions in fields like medical research and transportation.

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Alexander Graham Bell Was An Influential Scientist, Engineer and Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist and inventor born in 1847 who is widely credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He experimented with devices related to sound and worked with his assistant Thomas Watson to develop acoustic telegraphy. On February 14, 1876, Bell was awarded a patent for the telephone, beating out rival inventor Elisha Gray. His first words spoken on the telephone were to Watson. By 1886 over 150,000 telephones were in use in the United States. Bell made many other contributions in fields like medical research and transportation.

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Alexander

Graham Bell

 Alexander Graham Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and inventor.


 He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He died on August 2,
1922 at the age of 75.
 He is widely credited with the invention of the first practical telephone.
 Bell’s mother and wife were both deaf, this had a major influence on his
work.
 He didn’t have the middle name “Graham” until he turned 11 when his father
gave it to him as a birthday present. He’d earlier asked to have a middle
name like his two brothers.
 Bell became an excellent piano player at a young age.
 When he was 23, Bell and his parents moved to Canada.
 Bell studied the human voice and worked with various schools for the deaf.
 Bell experimented with sound, working with devices such as a ‘harmonic
telegraph’ (used to send multiple messages over a single wire) and a
‘phonautograph’ (used to record sound).
 He worked on acoustic telegraphy with his assistant, an electrical designer
named Thomas Watson.
 On February 14, 1876, Bell and an American electrical engineer named
Elisha Gray both filed patents with the U.S. Patent Office covering the
transmission of sounds telegraphically. There is debate about who got there
first but the patent was awarded to Bell. A few days later he succeeded in
getting his telephone to work using elements similar to those of Gray’s water
transmitter.
 Bell’s first words with the working telephone were spoken to his assistant
Watson and were along the lines of “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see
you.”
 Bell improved on the design and by 1886 more than 150,000 people owned
telephones in the United States.
 Bell also had a strong interest in other scientific fields, conducting medical
research, searching for alternative fuel sources, experimenting with metal
detectors, developing hydrofoil watercraft and much more.
 Famous Alexander Graham Bell quotes include:
o "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
o "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a
man is what he makes of himself."
o "The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see
the distant person to whom he is speaking."
o "The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as
they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit
the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses
him, seeking materialization."
The telephone is one of the greatest inventions yet. It is hard to
imagine the world without such a great invention. Below, write to
describe an invention you would like to invent and draw a picture.
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Let’s pretend that Alexander Graham Bell was still alive... Write a letter
to him thanking him for his wonderful invention and let him know
how the telephone has made an impact in your life.
Dear,
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Sincerly,

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