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=__**Alexander Graham Bell**__=

There are roughly six billion and eight hundred million people on earth that own a phone. Very few will probably ever think back to the origins of the phone that they seem to have stuck in front of their face all day.

A Scottish linguist, educator, scientist, and inventor all at the same time, Alexander Graham Bell. He was most famous for his inventions. The most famous invention he has plays a huge role in our life today. He invented the first working telephone and founded the Bell Telephone company in 1876-77.

Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first telephone. All intentions of the telephone were to help visible speech for the deaf. In fact, Bell's education was through his fathers work on Visible speech for the deaf. Bell was intending on continuing his fathers work with the telephone. In 1871 Alexander Graham Bell started working on a device that would consist of different frequencies in the telegraph. In 1873 and 74 he dedicated all of his time day and night trying to perfect the harmonic telegraph. In the middle of his invention he sought out to develop the human voice through wires.Bell's diversion frustrated his benefactors, so they hired Thomas Watson to refocus Bell on the harmonic telegraph. But soon enough Watson was indulged in Bell's idea of a voice transmitter, and they created a great partnership. Bell had the ides and Watson supplied the expertise to make it a reality. In 1876 that idea became a reality as Bell spilled knocked over a container of transmitting fluid, and called for Watson through the wire and it worked.

As you all should know telephones went worldwide and it effected the Scottish by giving them communications from place to place within seconds. Instead of having to try and mail a letter from ones house to a friends and it taking days, you can send a message through wires and it will take seconds.