Happy Birthday Sir Graham Bell
1.)
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2.)
Alexander Graham Bell is an American inventor and teacher of the deaf.
3.) Bell is most famous for his
work on the telephone.
4.) He was educated at the
universities of Edinburgh and London.
5.) Bell immigrated to Canada in
1870 and to the United States in 1871.
6.) In the United States he began
teaching deaf-mutes, publicizing the system called visible speech.
7.) In 1872, he founded a school
to train teachers of the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts and became part of
Boston University
8.) Bell was appointed professor
of vocal physiology in Boston University.
9.) He became a naturalized U.S.
citizen in 1882.
10.) Since the age of 18, Bell
had been working on the idea of transmitting speech.
11.) In 1874, while working on a
multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas of the telephone.
12.) On March 10, 1876, his
experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally became a reality.
13.) The statement that Bell
transmitted was “Watson, come here; I want you.”
14.) At the 1876 Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, telephone was introduced to the
world.
15.) The Bell Telephone Company
was established in 1877.
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16.) In 1880 France bestowed on
Bell the Volta Prize, worth 50,000 francs, for his invention.
17.) He used the money in
founding the Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and invented the photophone
with his associates.
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18.) Other inventions include the
audiometer, the induction balance, and the first wax recording cylinder,
introduced in 1886.
19.) Bell was one of the
cofounders of the National Geographic Society, and he served as its president
from 1896 to 1904.
20.) He also helped to establish
the journal Science by financing it from 1883-1894.
21.) Bell’s summer home is
located at Baddeck on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
22.) Most of his inventions on
aeronautics were first tested near his summer home in Canada.
23.) His study of flight began
with the construction of large kites, and in 1907 he devised a kite capable of
carrying a person.
24.) Bell, with the American
inventor and aviator Glenn Hammond Curtiss, developed the aileron and the
tricycle landing gear.
25.) His group also started
working on hydrofoil boats, which travel above the water at high speeds.
26.) Bell’s final full-sized
“hydrodrome,” developed in 1917, reached speeds in excess of 113 km/h for many
years were the world’s fastest boat.
27.) His book Duration of Life
and Conditions Associated with Longevity was published in 1918.
28.) Alexander Graham Bell died
on August 2, 1922, at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island.
29.) A museum is located in his
home and contains several of his original inventions. The museum is maintained
by the Canadian government.
30.) Alexander Graham Bell, who
was unable to complete the university program of his youth, received numerous
Honorary Degrees from academic institutions.
31.) Close relatives and friends
called him Aleck.
32.) His two brothers, Melville
James and Edward Charles, both died of tuberculosis.
33.) His father was a professor.
34.) His two brothers both have
middle name. At age 10 he asked his father that he should have a middle name
too. On his 11th birthday his wish was granted.
35.) At age 16, Bell secured a
position as a "pupil-teacher" of elocution and music, in Weston House
Academy located at Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
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