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Alexander Graham Bell
This category is for questions about the Scottish-born inventor, widely credited for the invention of the telephone.
755 Questions
Did Alexander Graham Bell make an airplane too?
yes he did with a companies help the company was called AEA.
A group of early designers formed the Aircraft Experiment Association that would exchange ideas and work together to design a better airplane. The group included Glenn Curtis, Casey Baldwin, and Lt. Selfridge. They took turns building a design by one member of the group. Alexander Bell's design was a wing made of triangular shapes that was supposed to produce more lift but it didn't fly.
In the meantime, the Wright Brothers continued to issue patents to protect their design and held very few public demonstrations of their new airplane.
How did Alexander Graham Bell die?
Alexander Graham Bell died of Pernicious Anemia. He died on August 2, 1922 at the age of 75.
How Alexander Graham Bell impacted the Industrial Revolution?
Alexander Grahm Bell impacted the world with the telephone. Without him, we wouldn't be able to contact others without meeting them somewhere. Not only did he invent the telephone, but he also invented the photophone and the wireless phone. Other than phones, he invented the multiple telegraph, hydro-airpane, photo-sensitive selenium cell, and new techniques for teaching the deaf to speak. Bell also improved Thomas Eddison's phonograph. Bell and his father-in-law, Gardiner Hubbard, along with others founded the National Geographic Society (N.G.S) in 1888; Bell was president of the society from 1898-1903. So basically Alexander Grahm Bell had a very large impact in the world.
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Where was the telephone invented according to Alexander graham bell?
The principles on which the telephone is based were discovered many years before the work of Alexander Graham Bell. Bell patented a telephone apparatus in 1876, having worked on its development since 1865. The US government started a court case to cancel Bell's patent. The suit claimed that the patent was fraudulent and based on the work of Antonio Meucci (1808-1889), an Italian immigrant educated in mechanical engineering and design, who had designed a telephone in the 1850's and gave a public demonstration of it in 1860 on New York's Staten Island, and Johann Philipp Reis, a German inventor who developed a similar device.
How old was Alexander bell when he died?
He died in 1922 at his summer home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. People throughout North America were urged torefrain from making phone calls during his burial so that telephones would remain silent as a tribute. Bell died of pernicious anemia atage 75, at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, located on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island near the village of Baddeck. He was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. He was survived by his wife and two of their four children.
Where did Alexander graham bell grow up?
he lived in europe, then moved to british columbia, in vanouver
Why did Alexander Graham Bell emigrate to Canada?
Bell's parents decided to move to Canada in 1870, when Bell was 23, after both of Alexander's brothers had died of tuberculosis, aged 19 and 25. Bell himself had been in poor health for many months. Bell's father had previously convalesced in Newfoundland, so the family moved from London to Brantford, Ontario.
Bell himself took teaching positions in Boston and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts after his marriage in 1877. In 1882, he became a naturalized US citizen. Bell later moved to Nova Scotia, and lived to the age of 75.
What year did Alexander Graham Bell get married?
He was 30 years old when he married Mabel Hubbard in 1877.
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How do bells and buzzers work?
A wind chime has several objects which produce a "chime" when they strike each other. When a wind chime is left hanging freely, the wind makes the objects move and they strike each other to produce a chiming sound.
What is Gerda Alexander Eutony?
Through GAE one becomes a master of self-sensing and knowing which includes becoming sensitive to the external environment, as well.
How did Alexander gram bell's telephone help his family?
It helped the family because they got a better name and well they were now able to call when some1 else bought the telephone.
What were St.Bernadettes brothers and sisters names?
St. Bernadette Soubirous had a total of five siblings. Her brothers were named Jean-Marie and Joseph, while her sisters were Louise, Cécile, and Toinette. The family lived in Lourdes, France, where Bernadette had her famous visions of the Virgin Mary.
Who wanted to create a telegraph before Alexander grahanm bell?
Bell invented the Telephone, not the telegraph.
The first practical telegraph systems could send coded message, not speech.
They were invented in Europe in the 1830s.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Alfred Vail (famous for Morse Code) helped perfect and commercialize the telegraph in the US, around 1837.
What did bell's wife and mother have in common?
They were both deaf.Alexander taught his wife mabel how to speak.They were both deaf.Alexander taught his wife mabel how to speak.They were both deaf.Alexander taught his wife mabel how to speak.
