Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper

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Mya Lux

Sign 105

Prof. Miller

10 May 2018

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland

(Hochfelder). He was born to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. Throughout his life, he had many roles and held a number of occupations. Some of the occupations and roles that Bell had include inventor, scientist, teacher of the deaf, as well as father, husband, and business owner. Through his work as an American inventor, Bell held a total of 30 patents of which 12 he shared with collaborators (“Alexander Graham Bell”). As many Americans know and were taught in school, Bell is claimed to be the inventor of the telephone. However, there is speculation on whether or not he invented the telephone

Although the telephone is the invention that Bell is most well known for, his inventing first started when he was still a child. While Bell was still growing up in Scotland, he noticed that it was a very long process to remove the husk from grain at a nearby grain mill (“Alexander

Graham Bell”). After seeing this, Bell went home and constructed a device that would be able to remove the husk from grain, and the device made the process both faster and easier for the

Lux 2 workers at the grain mill (“Alexander Graham Bell”). Also during Bell’s early years, he enrolled at the Royal High School in Edinburgh, but just four years later, before he had even graduated, he dropped out of the school (“Alexander Graham Bell”). Although he left the school, Bell did not leave just because he did not enjoy it. Bell had voluntarily left to go take care of his grandfather who had fallen deeply ill in 1862 (“Alexander Graham Bell”).

Just after Alexander Graham Bell had entered the Royal High School in Edinburgh, his mother had become deaf. At the time, Bell was only 12 years old, but he still helped his mother overcome her deafness by creating a form of visual language for her to communicate with.

During his career teaching the deaf, Bell began to research and experiment with the telegraph. Bell was initially trying to devise a way in which individuals could send multiple telegraphs at the same time but on different frequencies (“Alexander Graham Bell”). This eventually led to Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876. However, Bell did not single-handedly invent the telephone, he had the assistance of Thomas A. Watson, a skilled electrician (“Alexander Graham Bell”). Only a year after the first successful transmission through Bell’s telephone, The Bell Telephone Company was created on July 9, 1877

(“Alexander Graham Bell”). Although the telephone is a great invention and without it, today’s connected society would not exist, Bell did not originally invent the telephone for hearing individuals. Because Bell was a supporter of the oral method for teaching the deaf and had been teaching the deaf through the use of speech for years before, it is not surprising that he wished for deaf individuals to communicate through speech with his new invention. Furthermore, not many years later did Alexander Graham Bell leave his position and holdings on The