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Alexander Graham Bell

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

1847 - 1922

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent only a few years in public schools, and he was taught a good culture by his family and himself. His tendency to generate articulated sounds appeared naturally because his father was an expert in the anatomy of sounds, reforming speech, and teaching the deaf and dumb.

Bell moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States in 1871, and there he began to make his discoveries that led him to inventing the telephone. He applied for a patent in February 1876, and obtained it a few weeks later. It is funny to say that another person had applied for a patent for a similar invention on the same day that Bill submitted his application, but it was one hour late.

After he was given the patent, the first telephone was displayed at the Philadelphia State Fair. His invention aroused the interest of the masses of the people, and he deserved appreciation and won a prize.

However, the Western Lightning Union Company refused to purchase this invention in the amount of . 100,000 dollars. Therefore, Bill and his companions, in July 1877, set out to form a company for themselves, which is Jeddah, the famous American Western Telephone and Telegraph Company in these days.

However, Bill and his wife, who owned 15% of the company's shares, did not realize how much the company's profits would be. Within a month, the share price on the stock exchange became $250, then it rose to $1,000 in November (and his wife was begging him to get $65 a few months ago, because she did not know that the share would rise like this).

In 1881, they unreasonably sold about a third of their remaining shares. However, in 1933, the value of their shares became about one million dollars.

Although the invention of the telephone made Bell a wealthy man, it did not cause him slackness or laziness in resuming his scientific research, and he succeeded in several useful inventions, although they were less important than the telephone. His interests were distributed and different, but his main interest was helping the deaf and dumb. His wife was a deaf girl he had taught her. They had two boys and two daughters, but both boys died while they were children. In 1882 Bill became an American citizen and died in 1922.

The evaluation of Bell's influence depends on the importance of the telephone in the world, and in the writer's opinion, the degree of his evaluation is very high, because very few inventions are used today as widely as the telephone, and it is rare for any invention to have the great influence and interest that the telephone has in people's daily lives.

The author (Bell) was classified under the Marconi classification, because the radio is a multifaceted invention and is considered more important than the telephone, meaning that any conversation we have on the phone can turn into a conversation on the radio, and vice versa is not true, and communication with aircraft in the air cannot be done by telephone, but by the radio .

And if we consider this point in particular, we find that Bell should be ranked much lower than Marconi, but the truth is that there are two advantages to the telephone. The first is that all telephone networks in the world cannot be replaced by radio networks. The hands of the inventors of the radio headset, recorders and other means, therefore, Alexander Graham Bell is considered only a degree less than Marconi.