According to merriam webster honor is a good name or public esteem. In my opinion honor is having high respect for someone. Alexander Graham Bell is a great example of being honorable. Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents were Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother was almost completely deaf, and his father taught to deaf people. At age 11 he started school at Royal High School, but didn't enjoy the curriculum so at age 15 he dropped out. Later Alexander passed the tests needed to be accepted in the University College London in June of 1868. He didn’t finish this schooling either because his family moved to Canada due to tuberculosis that took both of his brothers. After …show more content…
Bell became her teacher in 1873, she was 15 and he was 25. They fell in love and got married on July, 11, 1877. They later had four children, Elsie, Marian, and had two sons but they both died of infancy. While still teaching, Alexander Graham Bell started to research methods to transmit several telegraph messages at the same time over one wire. Joseph Stearns invented a copy, but his transmitted two messages at one time over one wire. Bell later filed a patent describing his own method for transmitting sounds. HIs rival Elisha Gray filed a caveat on a similar method. The Patent Office awarded Bell on March 7, 1876 for having one of the most-valuable patents in history. Even though Alexander Graham Bell had a patent his instrument was not functioning fully. Bell spent months making his instrument good for public exhibition. In June he showed his instrument to the judges of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. In August of that same year he was on the receiving end of the first long-distance call which was transmitted from Brantford to Paris, Ontario, over a telegraph wire. Gardiner Hubbard started a group called The Bell Telephone Company which commercialized Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Although, his invention made him very rich he eventually lost