Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 March 1847. He attended a private school for about a year and two years at the Royal Edinburgh Grammar School, from which he graduated at the age of 14. He needed no further instruction, as he studied at home with his father, who was a university professor.
It was the word "sound" that marked the course of the Bell family. His mother, Eliza Grace Simonds Bell, being deaf, never knew its meaning. And his father, Dr. Alexander Melville Bell, devoted his life to the production of sound speech by deaf people like his wife. This was the subject of his teaching: recitation, elocution and speech restoration. His text "The Classical Method of Correct Articulation" was reprinted about 200 times in the English language.
And his children were called upon to be trained so that they could continue the father's work. Self-educated, therefore, at heart, Alexander Graham studied briefly at the University of Edinburgh and later at University College, London. His first professional occupation was, of course, in acoustics. At the age of 17, in 1864, he found himself teaching music and orthodontics at a school in Elgin, Scotland. Four years later, in 1868, he became his father's assistant at University College, London.
Twenty-year-old Alexander Graham's health, however, did not keep pace with either his strong will or his young age. He is shaken. The Bell family is lucky to have at least their second-born son alive. His other two brothers have contracted tuberculosis and are losing their battle with it. Shocked by the deaths of their two sons and worried about the frail health of the third, the Bells decide to leave the humid and "sickly" climate of Great Britain and emigrate to Canada. In 1870, they settled in Bradford, Ontario.
The invention of the telephone
In 1875, Bell, with the help of his now friend and partner Watson, experimented with the construction of a device capable of transmitting sound by means of electricity. Finally, in the same year, he invents the multiple telegraph. On 7 March 1876, the US Patent Office grants Bell patent number 174,465, which patents 'the method and apparatus for transmitting voice or other sounds by telegraph () by means of electrical impulses of the same form as the oscillations of air which follow the transmission of voice or other sounds'. The telephone.
On the same day, however, along with Bell, the American physicist Elisha Gray had filed an application for a similar patent. A marathon of lawsuits then began. Never before in history had an invention been claimed by so many 'fathers' and never before had patent paternity received more litigation. In the end, the patent in question was granted to Gray, but the paternity of the telephone was granted to Alexander Graham Bell, who in the meantime had also patented his new, sophisticated telephone device with new patents.
1877 is a landmark year for telecommunications. Bell founds the world's first major telephone company. It is called the Bell Company. In the same year he marries the chosen one of his heart, his deaf and dumb student and daughter of his sponsors Mabel Hubbard, who was ten years younger than him and with whom he had four children.
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