Alexander Graham Bell - Innovation Through Effort - By: Derek Dashwood

Alexander Graham Bell was born Mar 3, 1847, and even as a youth showed an inventive mind. Om ome occasio, he and other boys were given the task of husking wheat out of the husk or ear. He took his share of the husks home and quickly took the husks off using a nail brush. He told the miller about this, who with Franklins help, designed an automatic husker, installed it and his fortune was made, thanks to a young boy named Alexander Graham Bell.

Bell was educated at Edinburgh University, then on to study in London. Finally he received his Ph.D at Wurtzburg, Germany. In 1870 his health began to fail, so he and his father, an elocution teacher, moved to Canada. Two years later, while maintaining a second home in Canada, Bell moved to Boston. Here he and his father set up a speech therapy school, and business thrived. Bell fell in love with a deaf girl and Martha Hubbard became his wife, influencing the course of his work and his life.

Bell felt deep love for his deaf wife and this had him working for years to create a hearing machine for deaf people. In fact, Bell worked very hard on any machine or means to improve a deaf persons hearing. He never really did achieve that, but for the great majority who can hear, the telephone has been one of the great boons of the past century. That was in June 1875, but he only filed at the United States Patent office February 15, 1876. In fact one other genteman arrived within an hour to patent a device for a talking machine.

Bell was perhaps belated in securing his invention, but did win and is the father of modern communications. His claim to fame and fortune were assured. Only now do we talk of wireless; we know that is quite new; however up to now and since 1876 we were and are linked through wires and our telephones, and now all the other devices, computers and modems and television all run at different frequencies through the wires that Bell invented, failure by failure, in his small studio.

It seems that Bell had many more failures until the accidental finding the correct wireing. After so many failures lesser men would have felt they were wastingtheir time and it was hopeless.It was for Bell to fail his way to success. Not Alexander Graham Bell. By his nature he could only but press on again and again. The breaking of a string gave him the cue to how the wires would work. On February 3, 1876 Bell received his parent from the United States patent office, a Elisha Gray of Chicago.

There were a handful more: A.E. Dolbear, Daniel Drawbridge, as well as Gray and Bell had all been working on a talking machine. However the telephone, as it came to be known, was slow in receiving customers. Bell formed a partnership with Watson and Bells father in law, Gardner Hubbard. It was agreed that Bell was the inventor of the telephone, and gradually commerciall businesses were wiring up this time saving new device.

How much the telephone is a necessary part of life is obvious. What a fortune for us that a man such as Alexander Graham Bell walks the stage of life every now and then.

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