Alexander Graham Bell.
Bell was an audiologist and inventor best known for his invention of the telephone.
Bell was born in Edinburgh, to a family of speech therapists. For three generations, The Bells had been the foremost authorities on elocution and speech correction. The young Bell was trained to enter the family profession. He had a reliable education at Edinburgh’s Royal High School and was instructed privately from the benchmark text for speech therapists, A M Bell’s Standard Elocution.
Upon leaving college, Bell took up a position as a remedial teacher at school in Elgin where he taught music and elocution. From there, he went to Elgin’s Weston House Academy where, apart from his regular duties, he was given the opportunity to study science. In order to improve his audiological techniques, Bell’s efforts in science were concerned with the transmission of sound.
When Bell’s two brothers were struck down with tuberculosis, the family decided to emigrate to a healthier climate. They moved to Canada, where they continued their family business and Bell continued his experiments in sound. He took up a position in Boston, where he employed a young mechanic, Thomas Watson, to assist him in making the equipment to convey sound waves. After years of patient work, they had a working model. Bell had the privilege of making the first telephone message. It was to Watson in the next room ”Mr Watson, come in here. I want you”.
Bell invented several other gadgets including the first working metal detector. This device was used on the body of assassinated American President, James Garfield, in an attempt to locate the bullet in his body. The attempt would have succeeded had not the late president been lying on a metal bed frame, which confused the instrument.
2007-01-28 06:05:35
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answered by Retired 7
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Some movies you might know that are set between 1920 and 1940: The Great Gatsby The Godfather Public Enemies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning The Others The Notebook Memoirs of a Geisha The Pianist Saving Private Ryan Schindler's List Seabiscuit The Unborn Walk the Line Who Framed Roger Rabbit A Christmas Story Exorcist: The Beginning The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Annie Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Malcolm X The Mummy Returns Ray Australia Changeling Citizen Kane The Green Mile House on Haunted Hill King Kong
2016-03-29 06:34:09
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answered by Anonymous
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While we in the United States, Canada, and Scotland have been taught that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, not all countries agree with that assertion. Following the source link provides very interesting facts of other possibilities.
As near as I can determine, 1920 has no relevance to the invention of the telephone.
2007-01-28 06:37:29
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answered by Randy 7
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Phone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
Do you mean what improvements were made in the 1920s?
2007-01-28 06:04:15
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answered by John K 5
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The telephone was already invented by the 1920's... If you mean by style or brand, the candlestick telephone was popular in the 1920's along with the sultan phone style.
2007-01-28 06:14:58
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answered by Anonymous
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You need to pay more attention in class & to people around you because just about everyone knows it was Alexander Graham Bell!!! You can also read about him on Wikipedia, which has the story of his discovery.
2007-01-28 06:15:29
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answered by Donna J 4
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Graham Bell?
2007-01-28 06:07:42
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answered by JAMI E 5
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are you seriously asking? alexander graham bell
2007-01-28 06:02:58
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answered by scape.squad.story 3
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alexander graham bell.... they told us that in 1st grade
2007-01-28 06:12:08
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answered by Dont get Infected 7
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yes he is alexander graham bell ....
2007-01-28 06:05:16
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answered by cute 2
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