Only few people
in this world leave their footprints on the sands of history, and these men of honour
never die. One such grand personality is the greatest innovator of all times
Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the first practical telephone. His
other major inventions include: optical communications, hydrofoils, metal
detector and aeronautic.
Early Years of Life
At that time, Bell had made great progress at both his
Boston laboratory as well as at his family home in Canada and his work on
harmonic telegraph entered a decisive stage. Bell got financial support from
two wealthy patrons but he did not have the basic knowledge to continue with
the experiment. He still he did not give up and kept trying.
Bell hired Thomas A. Watson, an experienced electrical
designer, as his assistant. In 1875, an accident during the experiment led to
the sound powered telephone, which was able to transmit voice like sounds. At
last, after the patent issue made by Elisha Gray on March 10, 1876, Bell
succeeded in making his telephone work.
Graham bell was
born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. He was the only child, of
Professor Alexander Melville Bell, out of the three, who didn't die due to tuberculosis
at a young age. He received his early education at home from his father;
however he then got admitted to Royal high School, Edinburgh, which he left at
the age of 15, due to poor performance.
Bell moved to
London to live with his grand father and enrolled at the Western House Academy,
Scotland. For further studies he joined University of Edinburgh. His first
invention came at the age of 12, when he built a homemade de-husking machine to
be used at his neighbor’s mill. In return, he was given a small workshop within
the mill which he used to carry out further experiments.
At the age of
23, Bell’s brother’s widow and his parents shifted to Canada, to stay with a
family friend. After a short stay there, they purchased a farm near Brant ford,
where Bell built his own workshop in the carriage house. After setting up his
workshop, Bell continued his experiments with electricity and sound based on
the work of Helmholtz.
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The Bell Telephone Company was created in
1877. Bell company engineers brought about numerous improvements to the
telephone making it the most successful product ever.
Bell further
carried out his experiments in communication. He came up with the photophone-transmission
of sound on a beam of light, which was a precursor of fiber-optics. He helped
the deaf to learn new speech techniques. Altogether he received 18 patents in
his name out of which he shared 12 with his collegues
Final years:
On August 2, 1922
Bell died of diabetes at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, at age 75, leaving behind
a wife and two daughters. He was buried at the Beinn Bhreagh Mountain. During
his funeral every phone in North America was silenced in honor of the great
inventor.
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