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Alexander Graham Bell, what most people would refer to creator of the telephone. Some people say that a guy named Philipp Reis created it and or he got the idea from Antonio Muecci. The telephone as made a huge impact in the world.

//__** Who was Alexander Graham Bell and what did he do that was important? **__//

Alexander Graham Bell was born on(The Franklin Institute) March 3,(MIT) 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States.(The Franklin Institute) He was an early student of sound and speech.(Source 3) Settling in Boston before beginning his career as an inventor, throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people. This interest leads him to invent the microphone and, in 1876, his "electrical speech machine," which we now call it a telephone.(The Franklin Institute) In 2012 it is the one of the most used communicating tool. By 1878, Bell had set up the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. By 1884, long distance connections were made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York City.(The Franklin Institute) From the beginning of the telephone, Bell understood his invention's had huge potential. He wrote in 1878: "I believe in the future wires will unite the head offices of telephone companies in different cities, and a man in one part of the country may communicate by word of mouth with another in a distant place." (FCC)  __//** What was he like as a kid, and the Beginnings of the telephone? **//__

As a boy, Bell built a speaking robot, and found that he could touch his dog's throat in ways that seemed to form his barks and growls into words.(MIT) I’ve did this with my dog and his bark changed pitches. Bell was also a gifted pianist, who learned to discriminate pitch very well. He realized that chords could be transmitted through the air, vibrating at the other end at exactly the same pitch.(MIT) The first telephone appeared in Wisconsin in 1877 when Appleton banker Alfred Galpin ran a line from his residence to the bank. Several months later, he built a homemade switch for twenty-five telephones in Appleton. Rivaling Appleton for the earliest telephone was Platteville, having one at least in 1878.(The Telephone in Wisconsin) Why didn’t he make wires to go throughout the whole town? Bell was interested in electricity so he attempted to send messages over a wire. He didn't much time or the items required so he asked Thomas A. Watson to help him out. The two became friends and worked on this very boring process together to make sounds over the "harmonic telegraph." June 2, 1875 Bell was at the end of the wire and Thomas worked on the reeds of the telegraph in a different room and he heard a plucked reed coming to him through the wire. The next day, after fixing the instrument transferred the sound of Bell's voice to Watson. The instrument transferred Bell's voice sound not words. Bell and Watson had trails all summer and in September, 1875, Bell began to write the requirements for his first telephone patent. By March 1876 he managed to make a translation, but the sound was very faint. The patent was issued on March 7, 1876. The telephone carried its first distinct sentence three days later in the rented top floor of a Boston House. .(FCC) Richard Valentine made a private line for himself and one for his brother in Janesville in 1877. In 1878, he built a line for the editor of the Berlin Journal and one for the Sheboygan and Fond Du Lac Railroad in Dartford. The Administer wanted a line from the train station to taverns on the other side of Green Lake. Valentine built one of the first switchboards in the country to connect the three phones He telephone today is an everyday object or even out of use tool of communication and information exchange. When it came into the nineteenth century, however, the new tool provided a basic way for individuals to talk to each other, person to person, in real time. Neither the postal system nor the telegraph could provide large-scale, everyday information as people created it, and deliver it immediately to someone else. The power of the telephone can be seen in its immediate spread across the country. . (The Telephone in Wisconsin)



__//** So was it really Alexander Graham Bell or was it Philipp Reis or Antonio Meucci? **//__

Johann Philipp Reis was a 26 year old German science teacher and he was born 1834 and died on 1874. He started began working on the phone 1860. His main idea come from a French investigator named Bourseul. So he got his ideas from Boursuel; but what if Boursuel got his ideas from Alexander Graham Bell. In 1854 Boursuel explained how to transfer speech electrically. Reis's phones were tricky. The diaphragm was too delicate. A German company produced them with inconsistent results. Some worked well. Some transmitted only static. Reis's phones were demonstrated all over Europe. One was demonstrated in Scotland while Bell was back there visiting his father. We don't know if Bell saw it. However, he could hardly have been unaware of Reis's work. Talk to one diagram and let each vibration "make or break" the electric contact. The electric pulsations thereby produced will set the other diaphragm working, and [it then reproduces] then it transfers the sound.(The Telephone In Wisconsin) The telephone today is an everyday object or even out of use tool of communication and information exchange. When it came into the nineteenth century, however, the new tool provided a basic way for individuals to talk to each other, person to person, in real time. Neither the postal system nor the telegraph could provide large-scale, everyday information as people created it, and deliver it immediately to someone else. The power of the telephone can be seen in its immediate spread across the country. .(Lienhard) Christopher Jones comments on the claim that a Black invented the telephone: "That's odd; I heard that the Germans invented the telephone in the mid-19th century and that it was indeed patented. So are they saying that it wasn’t Alexander Graham Bell? I guess that Africans must have had a hand in the telephone's creation most likely by banging bongos in the jungle. The Spaniards invented a sort of "Whistle-phone," whose short hand code is now being taught in schools. In 1878, two years after Bell took out a patent for "improvement" on the telephone. German textbooks credited Reis with the invention until the Nazis expunged Reis's name from German literature. Randy Black gives us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the invention of the telephone. It is not what American children learn in school: "On June 15th, 2002, the US Congress officially recognized that the Italian inventor Antonio Meucci is to be credited for the invention of the telephone, and not Alexander G. Bell, as so far claimed. So there saying that Meucci is the creator of the telephone. The telephone was seemingly really was invented by an Italian, Meucci, who even made certain patent applications for it, and demonstrated working models of it in public some years before Bell. (Who Created the Phone?)

This is why most people would refer Alexander Graham Bell as the creator of the telephone. Some people say that a guy named Philipp Reis created it and or he got the idea from Antonio Muecci.

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