Alexandre Beautiful Graham

See also: Beautiful

Alexandre Graham Bell (March 3rd 1847 with Edinburgh in Scotland - August 2nd 1922 with Baddeck with the Canada) is a British inventor (naturalized American in 1882) which is especially known as being the inventor of the Téléphone.

He was prize winner of the Médaille Hughes in 1913.

Beautiful devoted its life to learn how to speak to the deaf persons and to teach them, moreover his/her mother and its promised in marriage was deaf. He was speech production teacher at the university of Boston and a specialist in the elocution, one would say today Phonologue or phoniatric specialist.

In 1876, with the exposure of the centenary of the independence from the United States in Philadelphia, Bell meets Dom Pedro II, emperor of Brazil. This last is interested on the telephone of Beautiful and requires a demonstration. Beautiful the famous monolog of Hamlet de Shakespeare " recites him; To Be gold not to Be ".

It founds the Beautiful telephone company

Anecdotes

  • the beautiful ( B ) is a unit acoustic (and electric) named in the honor of the inventor.

  • the Laboratoires Beautiful bear its name.
  • the Canadian company of telephony Bell Canada bears its name
  • " Alexander Graham Beautiful " is a Chanson British group Sweet.
  • 1959, 1st telephone with key, telephones of Mickey Mouse.
  • the first company to manufacture the telephone in 1878.

Paternity discusses

A controversy exists around the paternity of the invention of the telephone, which was perhaps invented 16 years earlier by Antonio Meucci. The role of this last in the history of this invention was recognized officially by the room of the representatives of the United States in 2001: “ Expressing the judicious off the House off Representative to honor the life and achievements off 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention off the telephone. ”.

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