BIOGRAPHY 2

 

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. Bell's father named Alexander Melville Bell is a professor at the University of Edinburgh and his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds, is a famous pianist despite being deaf. Bell also had two brothers, namely Edward Charles Bell and Melville James Bell, but they died when Bell was 20 years old due to tuberculosis.

Bell is a highly intellectual child who wants to learn the piano. Bell did not excel academically. Since childhood, he studied homeschooling. However, from an early age, Bell always solved problems. When he was 12 years old, Bell invented a rotating oar device and a nail brush that could separate the husks and seeds of wheat to improve farming processes. At the age of 16 Bell began to study the mechanics of speech. He continued his education at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1870, he and his family moved to Canada. The following year, Bell settled in the United States. In the United States, Bell followed his father to teach deaf children. In 1872, Bell opened the Boston School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech, where deaf people were taught to speak. At the age of 26 he became Professor of Vocal and Elocution Physiology at the Boston University School of Oratory.

In 1871, Bell worked also at the telegraph office. A device that sends messages over the cable at the same time. The technology was backed by a group of investors and he started looking for a way to transmit the human voice over wires. In 1875, together with his friend Thomas Watson, he began converting electricity into sound. He got his patent on March 7, 1876.

In just seven months, Bell and his wife had sold most of their stock at an average price of $250 per share. In the following November the price had shot up to $1000 per share. In 1881 they rashly sold another third of the remaining shares they owned. Even so, by 1883 they had made a profit of about a million dollars.