Have you ever wondered who made the revolutionary telephone that we use every day? What made a simple invention have a great impact on our life today? That person was Alexander Graham Bell. Bell once said “When one door closes, another opens…” This is what motivated him not to give up on his inventions no matter how difficult. “Concentrate your thoughts with the work at hand”, Bell stated. That was something that he did for many years in result of the fascinating telephone. Alexander Graham Bell is definitely one of the most legendary people in the field of science because of his life changing invention of the telephone, his establishment of schools for the deaf and his development in aviation. In the 1800’s Alexander Graham Bell went to Boston, Massachusetts to join the Boston school for the Deaf as a staff member. “By 1873 he had become a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University and was also tutoring private pupils,” (Scientists: Their Lives and Works). With help from his father, Alexander Melville Bell, they made advancements to visible speech which helped many of the deaf using sound and symbols to connect the meaning of words to teach them to speak. He developed his works with the graphaphone, which was the first sound recorder. …show more content…
The telephone has made technology what it is today. The most astounding thing to discover is that it was made accidentally. One afternoon, Bell and his fellow partner, Watson, were working on developments for the harmonic telegraph. In an article it states, “Then, on June 2, 1875, the critical breakthrough on the telephone accidentally came about while they were working on the telegraph. When a stuck reed on Watson’s transmitter changed an intermittent current into a continuous current, Bell, who had an extraordinarily sharp hearing, picked up the sounds on his receiver in another room” (Scientists: Their Lives and