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Interesting Facts About Alexander Graham Bell
A scientist, Alexander Graham Bell is the Inventor of the telephone and telegraph. His contribution in the filed of science also includes groundbreaking work in hydrofoils and aeronautics. Bell is also credited with the invention of the metal detector, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. He became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.
Bell’s inventions spanned a wide range of interests and included the audiometer to detect minor hearing problems, a device to locate icebergs, investigations on how to separate salt from seawater, and work on finding alternative fuels. He also worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf.
Born on March 3, 1847, at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, to Parents Alexander Melville Bell
and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, he studied acoustics. His mother and wife, who were deaf, profoundly influenced Bell’s life’s work.
On 11 July 1877, a few days after the Bell Telephone Company was established, Bell married Mabel Hubbard at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge.
Bell was also a professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory. In 1882, Bell became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
In 1880, Bell received the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs ($10,000) for the invention of the telephone from L’Académie française, representing the French government, in Paris. The Volta Prize was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the battery.
Bell died of pernicious anemia on 2 August 1922, at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, at age 75.
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