A Pioneer in the Field of TeleCommunications
The telephone is unquestionably one of the most significant and radical inventions and subsequent human developments of all time. It changed the field of global communications forever and of course the Internet we are presently using could never have existed without it. Who was the quiet and unassuming man responsible for its invention, however? Where was he born and when? How did his ground-breaking legacy come about? These are but some of the questions I hope to answer on this site...
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The Early Years
Bell's birth and education
Alexander Graham Bell was born on 3rd March 1847 at 16 South Charlotte Street in Edinburgh's New Town. He was the second of ultimately three sons to be born to his speech therapist father and his mother. There can therefore be little doubt where he first acquired his interest in sound and the quality of same.Surprisingly, the young Alexander was neither a model nor even an enthusiastic pupil at school, actually leaving at the age of 15, much to the consternation of his father. It may well be for this reason that he subsequently moved to London to live with his grandfather and namesake.
A Born Inventor
The signs were there from the earliest age
Bell's first recognised invention was when he came up with an automatic dehusking machine for use in a mill owned by his friend's father. His creation was so successful, it was actually put in to use and retained for a number of years.It was due to his mother's rapidly developing deafness in his early teenaged years, however, that he seriously began concentrating upon the quality of sound and communications. He devised a crude form of sign language with which he could communicate with her and also practised his diction that she may hear him if he spoke close enough to her ear.
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