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1976, 10. Marz. 100 Jahre Telefon. RaTdr.; gez. K 13.
cnb) Erstes Telefon; Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), amerik.
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Famous men, Bell, Telephones, Communication,ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL AND TELEPHONE 1876
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
Alexander Graham Bell Bell was a Scottish-born American
scientist and inventor, most famous for his pioneering work on the
development of the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was born on 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh and
educated there and in London. His father and grandfather were both
authorities on elocution and at the age of 16 Bell himself began
researching the mechanics of speech. In 1870, Bell emigrated with
his family to Canada, and the following year he moved to the United
States to teach. There he pioneered a system called visible speech,
developed by his father, to teach deaf-mute children. In 1872 Bell
founded a school in Boston to train teachers of the deaf. The
school subsequently became part of Boston University, where Bell
was appointed professor of vocal physiology in 1873. He became a
naturalised U.S. citizen in 1882.
Bell had long been fascinated by the idea of transmitting
speech, and by 1875 had come up with a simple receiver that could
turn electricity into sound. Others were working along the same
lines, including an Italian-American Antonio Meucci, and debate
continues as to who should be credited with inventing the
telephone. However, Bell was granted a patent for the telephone on
7 March 1876 and it developed quickly. Within a year the first
telephone exchange was built in Connecticut and the Bell Telephone
Company was created in 1877, with Bell the owner of a third of the
shares, quickly making him a wealthy man.
In 1880, Bell was awarded the French Volta Prize for his
invention and with the money, founded the Volta Laboratory in
Washington, where he continued experiments in communication, in
medical research, and in techniques for teaching speech to the
deaf, working with Helen Keller among others. In 1885 he acquired
land in Nova Scotia and established a summer home there where he
continued experiments, particularly in the field of aviation.
In 1888, Bell was one of the founding members of the National
Geographic Society, and served as its president from 1896 to 1904,
also helping to establish its journal.
Bell died on 2 August 1922 at his home in Nova Scotia
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