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How Did Alexander Graham Bell Impact The Whole World

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When Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone he probably didn’t realize how much his invention would impact the whole world. The telephone united the world in a way many people couldn’t have dreamed possible. The new invention allowed people over great distances (and soon vast oceans) to communicate quickly and easily. They could now call up town meetings, call hospitals for medical emergencies, or simply call a friend to stay in touch. This invention would even be able to change relationships between other countries, because now there was less miss communication, and the telephone was fairly reliable. This would change everything. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburg, United Kingdom on March 3rd, 1847 to Alexander .M. Bell and Eliza .G. Symonds. Bell’s mother was deaf and his father …show more content…

He then accepted a teaching job at Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. There he met his wife Mabel Hubbard, who was a student there. Then Bell became interested in the telegraph and started to work on the telephone. Alexander Graham received his first and possibly most important patent for the telephone on March 7th, 1876. This was just a few days before he would test his new invention, and it would work. The first words were spoken and heard through the telephone on March 10th, 1876 by Bell and his assistant Thomas .A. Watson. Those first words where, “Watson come, I need you.” It was a miraculous day for all who witnessed it, So many things where suddenly possible on that day. The telephone was a very complex machine, only the keenest mind could understand. The device took in sound waves and transmitted them through phone wires for a message received on the other end. Obviously there where several more modifications of the first telephone, all the way from the rotary, to I phones! Alexander Graham Bell’s ideas sparked a new age of communication and innovation. He truly was a world

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