Invention Of The Telephone

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The World’s First Telephone Have you ever wondered how the telephone came to be? Of all inventions, the telephone has made the largest impact in the Industrial Revolution. It led to and impacted so many positive things throughout the world. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, made an enormous impact, and was the beginning of something amazing. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in March 1847. His mother was deaf, so when his education in Scotland was complete he began to study acoustics. Bell found a job in Montreal in 1873, where he taught the method of visible speech. Visible speech was based on the phonetic alphabet and used as a great tool to help the deaf speak. He wanted to find ways that would make deaf peoples lives easier. Bell was always interested in the education of deaf people. This led Bell to invent the microphone. He became a professor at Boston University, and was still interested in the idea of making a telephone. He began experimenting with electrical signals for telephone usage. Bell's substantial amount of knowledge of the nature of sound and his appreciation of music allowed him to conjecture the possibility of transmitting multiple messages over the same wire at the same time. At first he was calling the telephone the “harmonic telegraph”. It was based on the concept that several notes could be sent simultaneously along the same wire if the notes or signals differed in pitch. Bell had help from Thomas Watson who was a young electrician. They had proven that unlike tones would vary the strength of an electric current in a wire. To attain success Bell and Watson needed only to build a working transmitter with a membrane capable of altering electronic currents and a receiver that would reproduce these variations in audible frequencies. In 1876 Bell was able to
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