Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper

The telephone was first created just to teach deaf students how to visualize sounds. Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone for a specific reason, and ever since the telephone was created it has been a very important object to society and has evolved throughout the course of history. Society did not think that transmitting speech electrically was possible until Alexander Graham Bell created the first working telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the original telephone with his assistant, Thomas Watson in 1876, when Alexander was 27 years old. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 and later died on August 2, 1922 at the age of seventy-five. Alexander lived in Edinburgh, Scotland with his family during his childhood and later moved with his family to live in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1870 because two of Alexander’s brothers had died of tuberculosis and he was also at risk. Alexander later moved to live in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada where he spent the rest of his life and later died. The main reason why Alexander created the telephone was because he wanted to teach his deaf students how to visualize sound. After many attempts, Alexander and his assistant, Thomas Watson, successfully transmitted human speech for the first time. …show more content…
Alexander spoke into the telephone the words, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”, his assistant heard what Alexander had said in another room using the telephone. March 10, 1876 was the first successful transmitted human speech in history. Ever since March 10, 1876 the telephone has evolved and has become something very different than the original telephone that Bell and Watson had