Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor, scientist and teacher of the deaf, Scottish-born American, 1847-1922

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About

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847. Son of Alexander Melville Bell, inventor of 'Visible Speech', and a deaf mother, he developed an early interest in deaf education. After emigrating to Canada and then Boston, he taught the deaf and opened a school. In 1876, he patented the telephone and made the first successful voice transmission with his assistant Thomas Watson. He co-founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Awarded the Volta Prize in 1880, he established the Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau for research on deafness. He also invented the photophone, the graphophone, the audiometer, and an electrical bullet probe. He contributed to aviation with the Aerial Experiment Association and to hydrofoils.

Major works

The Telephone (1876)invention
Photophone (1880)invention
Graphophone (1885)invention
Audiometerinvention
Electrical bullet probe (1881)invention

Key milestones

1876Received U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7 and made the first successful voice transmission on March 10.
1880Awarded the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs by the French government for inventing the telephone.
1887Founded the Volta Bureau in Washington, dedicated to research and education relating to the deaf.

Themes

CommunicationDeaf educationTechnological innovationAviationScience and society

Sources: si.edu · amhistory.si.edu · nps.gov

“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.”

— Alexander Graham BellTheme · Success

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“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, and a need for control is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. - Robert F. Bennettlh~ 'a better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it. This is the man who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Ad”

— Alexander Graham BellTheme · Psychology

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“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

— Alexander Graham BellTheme · Spirituality

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