Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 and was a Scottish scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is the creator of the first practical telephone. Bell's mother and wife were both deaf, which profoundly influenced Bell's life's work. At a young age Bell showed interest in studied and in inventing. His first ever invention was a wheat dehusking machine made of rotating paddles with a set of nail brushes that he made for his neighbor who had a flour mill. When he was older he attended the Royal High School in Scotland. He also moved into his grandfather’s house. His grandfather encouraged him in making inventions. Bell began to start experimenting with sound in 1863, Bell made a lifelike head of a man, complete with a throat and voice

Each pupil would play an important role in the next developments. George's father, Thomas Sanders, a wealthy businessman, offered Bell a place to stay in nearby Salem with Georgie's grandmother, complete with a room to experiment. The arrangement was for teacher and student to continue their work together, with free room and board thrown in. Mabel was a bright, attractive girl who was ten years Bell's junior, but became the object of his affection. She lost her hearing after a near-fatal bout of scarlet fever close to her fifth birthday, she had learned to read lips but her father, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Bell's benefactor and personal friend, wanted her to work directly with her teacher. They later married as a result of their close

Progress made at both his new Boston "laboratory,” which was just a rented space; and at his family home in Canada a big success. While working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. Bell thought it might be possible to recreate these waves but do so with electrical currents that would correspond to sound waves. Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound. But he couldn’t create a working model to prove his theories.

In 1874, telegraph message traffic was rapidly expanding and in the words of Western Union President William Orton, had become "the nervous system of commerce". Orton had contracted with inventors Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray to find a way to send multiple telegraph messages on each telegraph line to avoid the great cost of constructing new lines. When Bell mentioned to Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders that he was working on a method of sending multiple tones on a telegraph wire using a multi-reed device, the two wealthy patrons began to financially support Bell's