History of Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell made history with his inventions. Below is how the history of Alexander Graham Bell was made.

Alexander Graham Bell History in Canada

After the Bell family settled in Canada, Melville Bell (Alexander Graham Bell 's father) was offered a post teaching Visible Speech to the instructors at a school for the deaf in Boston. He was already committed so he recommended his son, Alexander Graham Bell, instead. Alexander Graham Bell packed his bags and headed for Boston, where Alexander Graham Bell would remain for nine years.

Alexander Graham Bell History in Boston

In Boston, Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for teachers of the deaf and became a professor at Boston University. Alexander Graham Bell wrote at that time:

"My feelings and sympathies are every day more and more aroused. It makes my very heart ache to see the difficulties the little deaf children have to contend with."

Alexander Graham Bell set out to prove to the world that the deaf could be taught to speak. Alexander Graham Bell did. His results were so astounding that Alexander Graham Bell was soon deluged with invitations to lecture and demonstrate his methods. Alexander Graham Bell made many friends in Boston and he also made contacts - important contacts. One of them was a man named Gardiner Hubbard.

History of Alexander Graham Bell and Gardiner Hubbard

Alexander Graham Bell met Hubbard through his work with Hubbard's daughter, Mabel, a young woman who became deaf at age 5, from scarlet fever. Gardiner Hubbard was a critic of the Western Union Telegraph Company and he became intrigued by Alexander Graham Bell 's work on improving the telegraph. Gardiner Hubbard offered Alexander Graham Bell financial backing in hopes his experiments would lead to a system that could compete with Western Union. It was exactly what Alexander Graham Bell needed - a patron!

Alexander Graham Bell 's experiments

Alexander Graham Bell's experiments in these days had little to do with trying to transmit speech electrically. Instead, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to find a way to send several telegraph messages over one wire at the same time, a device he called a "harmonic telegraph." But a few years into his experiments, Alexander Graham Bell became more and more enthralled by the possibility of an entirely new instrument - one that could carry messages back and forth by voice. Alexander Graham Bell had no idea how to make such an instrument, but in his heart he felt sure it was possible. Alexander Graham Bell continued his telegraph experiments, as promised to Gardiner Hubbard, but always in the back of his mind was this compelling vision of an instrument that talked.

As the experiments progressed, Alexander Graham Bell found he was short on two important resources - one was time and the other was skill. Alexander Graham Bell was good at concept but when it came to the mechanical details, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to admit that he was almost completely inept. Gardiner Hubbard, impatient to see results, insisted that Alexander Graham Bell find help. He sent him to a shop that made electrical instruments, sure that there he could find some sort of expert who could advise him.

Alexander Graham Bell found more than an expert. Alexander Graham Bell found a man that would help him form one of the most famous partnerships in the history of science and invention - Thomas Watson. Later, the name Watson would always evoke the very moment the telephone was born, when Edison's first words over the new invention were a call to him for help.