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THE TELEPHONE

We all know that communication is important as it helps information pass from one individual to another. Without communication, there will be no unity and all will be on chaos. Because of communication, knowledge can be passed from one person to a crowd. This article is also a means of communication as information is being passed from me to you readers.

Imagine a world without phones. Well, things will be like before. Letters will be sent from one person to another around the world. It still does happen right now but without any mobile phones, communicating will be hard, right? Let us thank Alexander Graham Bell for an invention called “Telephone”.

Who is Alexander Graham Bell? Of course, most of us know him as he invented the well-known telephone. Being born as a Scottish scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who was credited with patenting the first practical telephone, Bell is one of the inventors whose invention still live up to this age. Bell was born on the 3th of March, 1847 and died at the year 1922.

Alexander Graham Bell was not only a scientist and inventor, but he was also a teacher of the deaf. As to what inspired him to be a teacher of the deaf, it was because his mother was almost deaf and his father taught elocution to the deaf. His foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone by the year 1876 and the refinement of the phonograph by the year 1886.

Bell fell in love with one of his deaf students named Mabel Hubbard and married her despite of their 10-year gap in their age. Mabel was the daughter of Gardiner Greene Hubbard who was a founder of the Clarke School. The two of them had four children named Elsie, Marian, and two sons who died in infancy.

How did Bell’s invention of telephone begin? Bell began researching methods to transmit several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire—a major focus of telegraph innovation at the time and one that ultimately led to Bell’s invention of the telephone.

What is a phonograph? You might be familiar of the record player. A phonograph is an instrument used by reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc.

Alexander Graham Bell’s other inventions:
-Photophone (is a telecommunications device that allows transmission of speech on a beam of light.)
-Improvements in phonograph
-Own Flying machine (6 years after first flight of Wright brothers)
-Metal detector (invented to find the bullet in President Garfield)

Let us thank Alexander Graham Bell and other inventors for what we have now.