Alexander Graham Bell “was born on March 3, 1847. When he was eleven years old he went to Royal High School, but dropped out at the age of fifteen” (Alexander Graham Bell). Even though Bell was a high school dropout that did not stop him from becoming the best inventor ever. With ambition and the determination to never give up, Alexander Graham Bell, the best inventor ever, invented the telephone and then started the Bell Telephone Company, which eventually became the AT&T Corporation that everyone knows today. Alexander’s mother was almost deaf and his father taught echolocation to the deaf(Alexander Graham Bell). With this being what he grew up with, it is not a surprise that he was know as the teacher of the deaf. Alexander moved to Boston …show more content…
“ The Bell Telephone Company underwent a series of reorganizations and renamings between 1878 and 1900. In 1881 Bell bought Western Electric; this leading maker of telegraphic equipment thenceforth became the dominant manufacturer of telephone equipment as well. Another important unit, the Mechanical Department, formed in 1883, became the Bell Telephone Laboratories, incorporated as a separate company in 1925” (AT&T Corporation). Once the Bell company’s patent expired in 1894, the company had tons of competition come up. Even with the growing competition the company did not have much trouble, because the competition was just small independent phone companies and small time telephone manufacturers(AT&T Corporation). In 1885 The Bell Telephone company established the American Telephone and Telegraph Company or AT&T, and it was responsible for building long distance telephone lines (AT&T Corporation). Alexander Graham Bell is not only an inventor, he is also a entrepreneur to one of the biggest companies in the world. Everybody knows of or has heard of the AT&T Corporation. They are everywhere today you see them on tv, on billboards, and even on the Schulz …show more content…
Don’t think that those inventions are not revolutionary, because they are. Those inventions are just not as revolutionary as the telephone. The telephone has changed how we communicate with our family, friends, neighbors, or even people over seas. Everyone relies on a telephone at least once in their lifetime. Before there were telephones it was extremely hard to help in an emergency. Now when there is a life threatening emergency, help is just a click of a button away, and people are not left for dead. Just think if Alexander Graham Bell had not invented that telephone then you would not be holding the cell phone in your hand, calling someone with just a few clicks of a button. Schulz 6 The telephone is more important, because it had not only changed how we communicate with one another; but also how we get and receive information. The telephone had saved lives, because of the ability to call someone in just a matter of minutes. If Alexander Graham Bell had not had that ambition and the determination to never give up we would not have the telephone or the AT&T corporation that millions of people rely on today. I think that everyone owes Alexander Graham Bell a big Thank You for his work in