Biography Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
At age 11 he
entered the Royal High School at Edinburgh, but he did not enjoy the compulsory
curriculum, and he left school at age 15 without graduating. along with his
family, moved to Canada. The following year, he settled in United States.
While in the U.S., Bell implemented a system his father developed to teach deaf
children called “visible speech”. In 1872, he opened the School of Vocal
Physiology and Mechanics of Speech in Boston.
While teaching, Bell met Mabel Hubbard, a deaf student.
The couple married on July 11, 1877. They went on to have four children,
including two sons and two daughter.
In 1871, Bell started working on
the harmonic telegraph — a device that allowed multiple messages to be
transmitted over a wire at the same time. While trying to perfect this
technology, which was backed by a group of investors, Bell became preoccupied
with finding a way to transmit human voice over wires. Bell, with the help of
his partner Thomas Watson, had come up with a simple receiver that could turn
electricity into sound.
On March 7, 1876, Bell was
granted his telephone patent. A few days later, he made the first-ever
telephone call to Watson. By 1877, the Bell Telephone Company, which today is
known as AT&T, was created. In 1915, Bell made the first transcontinental
phone call to Watson from New York to San Francisco.
Bell died on August 2, 1922, at
the age of 75 in Nova Scotia, Canada. The cause of his death was complications
from diabetes. He was survived by his wife and two daughters.
During Bell’s funeral, every
phone in North America was silenced to pay tribute to the inventor.
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