I want you.”īy 1877, the Bell Telephone Company, which today is known as AT&T, was created.

A few days later, he made the first-ever telephone call to Watson, allegedly uttering the now-famous phrase, “Mr.

On March 7, 1876, Bell was granted his telephone patent. It’s said that Bell raced to the patent office to be the first to secure the rights to the discovery. Other scientists, including Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray, were working on similar technologies, and there’s some debate over who should be credited with the invention of the telephone. While trying to perfect this technology, which was backed by a group of investors, Bell became preoccupied with finding a way to transmit human voice over wires.īy 1875, Bell, with the help of his partner Thomas Watson, had come up with a simple receiver that could turn electricity into sound. In 1871, Bell started working on the harmonic telegraph - a device that allowed multiple messages to be transmitted over a wire at the same time. They went on to have four children, including two sons who died as infants. While teaching, Bell met Mabel Hubbard, a deaf student. At age 26, the budding inventor became Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory, even though he didn’t have a university degree. In 1872, he opened the School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech in Boston, where deaf people were taught to speak. While in the United States, Bell implemented a system his father developed to teach deaf children called “visible speech”-a set of symbols that represented speech sounds. The following year, he settled in the United States. In 1870, Bell, along with his family, moved to Canada. He went on to attend Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. At age 16, Bell began studying the mechanics of speech. When he was just 12, the young Alexander invented a device with rotating paddles and nail brushes that could quickly remove husks from wheat grain to help improve a farming process.

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