Alexander Graham Bell
ushered a new
era and reduced the distance in the world by inventing telephone. In
fact,
telephone revolutionized human life and brought the distant world
closer.
Alexander
Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847. He went to school with the
inherited
talent of his father, who was a famous teacher. Later, Graham went to
London
and Germany to study, where he took the degree of Ph.D. Even as a
child, he had
an inventive bent on mind. Later, he became a teacher for deaf
children. Due to
a severe illness, Graham Bell was sent to Canada by his father. Two
years
later, he was at Boston, where he set up a school for training teachers
of the
deaf. He also gave instructions on ht mechanics of speech.
He
fell in love with a deaf girl, Mabel Hubbard, while he was
experimenting on a
machine which he believed would make the deaf and dumb hear. Mabel
later became
his wife and proved to be an inspiration to this genius inventor.
Bell
was committed to construct 'hear for the deaf', a harmonic telegraph.
He turned
his attention to the transmission of speech by electricity. In 1873,
Graham
Bell became a professor of Vocal Physiology at Boston University. Bell
and his
assistant, Watson were ever engaged in making some machines in his
spare time.
At
Boston, Bell tried to communicate through a metal wife after a long
research.
Both of them continued experimenting with hearing instrument. One
afternoon, in
1870, Bell spoke to Watson, standing at a distance, "Mr. Watson, come
here
please, I want you." Watson flung down the receiver. He was taken by
pleasant
surprise. The telephone had been invented. Thus Alexander Graham Bell
made our
world, a smaller place.
In
1922, he died and Americans paid him a tribute by hanging up their
telephones
for a while during his funeral.