Time line of Alexander Graham Bell's life?

Answer 1

People remember Alexander Graham Bell as the man that invented the telephone. There are still telephone companies that carry his name.

Answer 2

Alexander Graham Bell was interested in how science could be used to improve the lifestyle of the hearing impaired; hence, the innovations and inventions in the communications field like the telephone. Bell was motivated by his mother and wife who were both deaf.

Answer 3

In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe. Alexander Graham Bell might easily have been content with the success of his telephone invention. His many laboratory notebooks demonstrate, however, that he was driven by a genuine and rare intellectual curiosity that kept him regularly searching, striving, and wanting always to learn and to create. He would continue to test out new ideas through a long and productive life. He would explore the realm of communications as well as engage in a great variety of scientific activities involving kites, airplanes, tetrahedral structures, sheep-breeding, artificial respiration, desalinization and water distillation, and hydrofoils. With the enormous technical and later financial success of his telephone invention, Alexander Graham Bell's future was secure, and he was able to arrange his life so that he could devote himself to his scientific interests. Toward this end, in 1881, he used the $10,000 award for winning France's Volta Prize to set up the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. A believer in scientific teamwork, Bell worked with two associates, his cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, at the Volta Laboratory. Their experiments soon produced such major improvements in Thomas Edison's phonograph that it became commercially viable. After 1885, when he first visited Nova Scotia, Bell set up another laboratory there at his estate, Beinn Bhreagh (pronounced Ben Vreeah), near Baddeck, where he would assemble other teams of bright young engineers to pursue new and exciting ideas. Among one of his first innovations after the telephone was the "photophone," a device that enabled sound to be transmitted on a beam of light. Bell and his assistant, Charles Sumner Tainter, developed the photophone using a sensitive selenium crystal and a mirror that would vibrate in response to a sound. In 1881, they successfully sent a photophone message over 200 yards from one building to another. Bell regarded the photophone as "the greatest invention I have ever made; greater than the telephone." Alexander Graham Bell's invention reveals the principle upon which today's laser and fiber optic communication systems are founded, though it would take the development of several modern technologies to realize it fully. Alexander Graham Bell

Sketch of a vacuum jacket in use. Over the years, Alexander Graham Bell's curiosity would lead him to speculate on the nature of heredity, first among the deaf and later with sheep born with genetic irregularities. His sheep-breeding experiments at Beinn Bhreagh sought to increase the numbers of twin and triplet births. Bell was also willing to attempt inventing under the pressure of daily events, and in 1881 he hastily constructed an electromagnetic device called an induction balance to try and locate a bullet lodged in President Garfield after an assassin had shot him. He later improved this and produced a device called a telephone probe, which would make a telephone receiver click when it touched metal. That same year, Bell's newborn son, Edward, died from respiratory problems, and Bell responded to that tragedy by designing a metal vacuum jacket that would facilitate breathing. This apparatus was a forerunner of the iron lung used in the 1950s to aid polio victims. In addition to inventing the audiometer to detect minor hearing problems and conducting experiments with what today are called energy recycling and alternative fuels, Bell also worked on methods of removing salt from seawater.

Photograph of the

Silver Dart However, these interests may be considered minor activities compared to the time and effort he put into the challenge of flight. By the 1890s, Bell had begun experimenting with propellers and kites. His work led him to apply the concept of the tetrahedron (a solid figure with four triangular faces) to kite design as well as to create a new form of architecture. In 1907, four years after the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, Bell formed the Aerial Experiment Association with Glenn Curtiss, William "Casey" Baldwin, Thomas Selfridge, and J.A.D. McCurdy, four young engineers whose common goal was to create airborne vehicles. By 1909, the group had produced four powered aircraft, the best of which, the Silver Dart, made the first successful powered flight in Canada on February 23, 1909. Bell spent the last decade of his life improving hydrofoil designs, and in 1919 he and Casey Baldwin built a hydrofoil that set a world water-speed record that was not broken until 1963. Months before he died, Bell told a reporter, "There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things. Alexander Graham Bell - Quote

"Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive Into the Woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought." Alexander Graham Bell - Biography

In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. Alexander Graham Bell - Photophone

On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly-invented "photophone." Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell's invention of his telephone grew out of ways to improve the telegraph. Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

He taught the deaf and invented many things that changed human communication, like a telephone, a telegraph, and a phonograph. More About Bell

In 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born into a family with a passion for communication. Timeline of Alexander Graham Bell

1847-1922 Alexander Graham Bell's First Patent: #174,465

Read and see the original patent for the telephone. Metal Detector: Alexander Graham Bell, Gerhard Fischar

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first crude metal detector in 1881.

Answer 4

• On March 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His grandfather and father were working in the field of elocution and speech.
• In 1858, from his eleventh birthday, he acquired the middle name Graham. But his close friends and relatives continued calling him 'Aleck'.
• At the age of twelve, Bell came to know that the process of removal of husks of wheat grains was arduous. He combined rotating paddles with sets of nailbrushes, thus creating a simple 'dehusking machine'. This was his first invention! He was a student of Royal High School in Edinburgh, Scotland. When Bell was sixteen, he became a 'pupil-teacher' of elocution and music in Western House Academy. Bell graduated from the University of Toronto.
• In 1863, on seeing Aleck's interest in speech, his father took him to see an automaton, which was developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone. It was based on the work of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen and simulated human voice. Aleck obtained a copy of von Kempelen's book, published in German, translated it and worked on building an automaton head. The combined efforts of Aleck and his brother, boosted by their father, bore fruit. From his translation, Aleck inferred, that if sounds of vowels could be produced electrically, consonant sounds and speech could also be produced by electrical means.
• In 1865, Bell family migrated to London but Aleck returned to Weston House and continued with his experiments in sound and electricity. In his efforts to transmit sound by means of electricity, he deployed a telegraph wire from his room to his friend's house. During the following year, Aleck worked at the position of an instructor in Somerset College in England. On the sad demise of his brother, Aleck returned home in 1867.
• Bell's time line shows that he moved to Canada with his brother's widow and his parents in 1870. He set up a workshop near his residence and continued experimenting on sound and electricity. He designed a piano, which could transmit music by means of electricity.
• In April 1871, Aleck's time line marked his move to Boston to provide training in Visible Speech System to school instructors. He repeated his training program in American Asylum for Deaf-mutes in Hartford and then in the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton.
• In October 1872, Alexander Bell opened a school in Boston named the "Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" for deaf students. He also worked as a private tutor. Helen Keller was one of his well-known students.
• In 1873, he became the professor of Vocal Psychology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory.
• In the spring of 1874, Alexander Graham Bell experimented on the phonautograph, a device that helps plotting sound waves. In the summer of the same year, he conceived the idea of a telephone. Thomas Watson started assisting Bell.
• On June 2, 1875, Watson happened to pluck one of the multiple metal reeds that formed Bell's apparatus. This accident demonstrated a telephone, which could transmit sound.
• U.S. Patent Office issued the patent numbered 174,465 to Bell, on 7th March 1876. It covered the method of and apparatus for transmitting sound waves telegraphically.
• On the night following 3rd August 1876, Bell received a long-distance voice message from Brantford, which lied 4 miles away. Then Bell began to publicly demonstrate and lecture about his new invention.
• In 1877, Bell Telephone Company was formed. On 11th July, during the same year, Bell married Mabel Hubbard in Cambridge. By then he had started signing by the name 'Alec' and not 'Aleck'.
• Until 1897, his teaching profession remained his main source of income. The invention of telephone was not profitable on economic terms.
• On 25th January 1915, Bell called up Watson, across the continent. Thirty-eight years before this transcontinental call, the same two people had conversed on phone. The one in 1915 was of a much better voice quality!
• Through his journey of life, Bell had to face competition and had to struggle for obtaining the patents for his inventions. Apart from a telephone, the invention of a metal detector in 1881 is attributed to Alexander Graham Bell. A metal jacket that helps in breathing, an audiometer that detects hearing problems also find a place in the list of Bell's inventions. He received many honors and many were given his name!
• On 2nd August 1922, Alexander Graham Bell expired, leaving behind a legacy of the wonderful invention of a telephone for us.

hi kids wat up

Answer 5

Invented the first telephone!

Answer 6

Smart