2007-09-02 17:43:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It was at first as office device to help with taking messages and dictation down
2007-09-02 17:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Making fire had already been invented and surveys showed people weren't interested in the Thigh Master yet.
More interesting is why Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He was actually trying to invent an artificial ear (or at least an electronic hearing aid). His wife and his mother (two different women) were deaf. Later his wife would ask "Why don't the kids ever call?" and he'd remind her "Ye couldna talk to 'em if they did, your deaf self!" and he'd end up sleeping on the sofa (plaid I'm guessing for his Scots heritage) for a couple of days.
2007-09-02 17:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He probably did it because he saw tremendous profit potential in the invention. Edison, it is said, invented nothing, unless it had some commercial value.
2007-09-02 17:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Mike W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does seem odd since he was deaf but he was an inventor and that's what they do. Since he wasn't always deaf maybe he remembered the sound of music and wanted to make it possible for others to hear it all of the time.
2007-09-02 17:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by DeborahDel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why, but I do recall reading that he said it was his personal favorite of his many inventions. The man was amazing.
2007-09-03 04:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by packerfan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeppers!
2007-09-02 19:05:08 · answer #6 · answered by charles s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that I read that it had something to do with assisting deaf people.
2007-09-02 18:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He saw $$$$$ in it.
2007-09-02 18:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to make recordings.
look at it this way, if he didn't... we wouldn't all have ipods.
2007-09-02 17:51:23 · answer #9 · answered by StangGirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋