Alexander Graham Bell
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1847-Beinn Bhreagh, Canada, 1922) Scientific American speech therapist and Scottish origin, inventor of the telephone. Born into a family dedicated to the speech and pronunciation correction, Bell was educated with his brothers in the family professional tradition. He studied at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and attended some classes at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, but his training was basically self-taught.
Alexander Graham Bell
In 1864 he held a residency at the Weston House Academy in Elgin, where he developed his studies on sound; in 1868 he worked as an assistant to his father in London, taking up his post following the departure of it to America. The sudden death of his elder brother because of tuberculosis, a disease that had also ended the life of his younger brother, negative impact on both health and mood of Bell.In these circumstances, in 1870 he moved to a village near Brantford (Canada) with the rest of his family, where his condition soon began to improve. A year later he moved to Boston, where he directed its activity to publicize the deaf learning system devised by his father, as reflected in the work Visible Speech (1866). The spectacular results of their work soon earned him a well-deserved reputation, getting offers to give several lectures, and in 1873 he was appointed professor of Vocal Physiology at Boston University.
In 1864 he held a residency at the Weston House Academy in Elgin, where he developed his studies on sound; in 1868 he worked as an assistant to his father in London, taking up his post following the departure of it to America. The sudden death of his elder brother because of tuberculosis, a disease that had also ended the life of his younger brother, negative impact on both health and mood of Bell.In these circumstances, in 1870 he moved to a village near Brantford (Canada) with the rest of his family, where his condition soon began to improve. A year later he moved to Boston, where he directed its activity to publicize the deaf learning system devised by his father, as reflected in the work Visible Speech (1866). The spectacular results of their work soon earned him a well-deserved reputation, getting offers to give several lectures, and in 1873 he was appointed professor of Vocal Physiology at Boston University.
At first, the telephone got all kinds of ironic comments, but revealed as a communication medium to long distance feasible provoked controversial litigation patent marketing. In 1880, he received the Volta Prize. The money earned this award was invested in the development of a new project, the graphophone, in collaboration with Charles Sumner Tainter, one of the first recording systems known sounds. After his death in 1922, he left a legacy eighteen patents to his name and with his collaborators twelve.
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