It is such a common occurrence that no one ever wonders from whence it came. But the telephone has a fascinating story behind it, one that could be entitled. "The Conquest of Solitude." It is the story of Alexander Graham Bell
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. in 1847, the son of a man who was consumed,passionately consumed, with the workings of the human voice, how it produced and used, and especially, in teaching the deaf how to use it. For in those days, you see, the deaf lived in permanent solitude. Not only could they no hear, they could not speak. After all, how could they pronounce words, they couldn't hear? Perhaps this obsession of the elder Bell was one of the reasons he marred whom he did. For the woman who would give birth to the inventor of the telephone - was deaf.
Yong Alexander Graham Bell grew up with his father's passions. In 1870, because of poor health, he migrated to Canada. It was not long before his success in teaching the deal to speak brought him to the attention of a wealthy merchant in Boston who had a deaf daughter, Mabel. Would Mr. Bell please teach Mabel how to speak? Yes, he would. And did. And they fell in love. I year later, in 1877, he and Mabel were married. He later became an American citizen.
Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922: Mabel five months later. She loved him that much. His name is likely to live as long as man recalls history. After all, there is this constant reminder of how he brought the human family into closer touch.
The first voice to travel over a wire was even a surprise for its inventor. Alexander Graham Bell. He was experimenting in his laboratory late one night, and quit by accident he succeded in transmitting a message to his assistant in the next room. What Mr. Bell could not know at the time was that nigh in 1876 would mark the stat of a revolution in communications.
