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World Telecommunications Day: Alexander Graham Bell, the creator of the telephone

World Telecommunications Day: Alexander Graham Bell, the creator of the telephone

On March 3, 1847, a man was born who without knowing it would revolutionize communications in his time and in the future, it could even be said that as the inventor and father of the telephone, he is the grandfather of each and every one of the cell phones whose use is so widespread in the world today: Alexander Graham Bell.

At two in the afternoon on February 14, 1876, a man entered the New York patent office.

-I have come to patent a device that can transmit sounds several kilometers away.

-Fill out this application, the clerk told him, without giving it too much importance and put your name in print.

The newcomer, a tall man of 1.80 m. tall, dark-haired, wavy, 29, stamped his name on the application. Alexander Graham Bell. Until that moment, he had managed to make his apparatus transmit only sounds, but not words.

Nationality?: Scottish. Profession?: Ph.D. in physics.

An unusual occurrence, two months later, an electrician named Gray showed up at the same office and was served by the same employee. I come to patent a sound transmitting device. The clerk thought it was a joke and smiled.

-I am struck by Mr. his request, because about 60 days ago a man came to patent the same thing.

To think that millions of days had passed, in the future of humanity, and Mr. Gray -the electrician- who did not know the works of Graham Bell, had arrived with a more rudimentary device, it is true, but only two months later, anyway.

A month after patenting his invention in March 1876, Bell was working in his laboratory at Boston University, where he was professor of vocal physiology.

His father had created a system for teaching the deaf. He, he was perfecting it.

At one point, his assistant, Thomas Watson, was in another part of the large building about 200 meters. away, when he heard, unexpectedly, the soft voice of Graham Bell, conversing with a person.

That voice came from the apparatus for sounds!

Our scientist did not speak through it. The artifact was accidentally close to him.

The assistant was working with a pipe, inside which there was an electrical cable. From this, a kind of horn came out, which the assistant supported in his ear, when he heard the voice of the scientist. Watson, he couldn’t believe it.

The human voice had managed to retransmit! And not just the sounds. Also the voice!

A year later, a communication was made between Boston and a town located 22 km.

It was the first long-distance communication! It was a day in March 1877.

Our scientist, who would die in 1922, at the age of 75, later invented the microphone, which allows thousands of human beings to be reached.

Later, his superior mind discovered a system to obtain water by condensation. And then a device to detect metallic objects in the human body, very useful for medical science.

Also a method to locate icebergs by echo, a kind of radar.

Icebergs, as is known, are those icebergs that protrude from the surface of the sea and that have caused so many shipwrecks, including that of the famous Titanic ship.

Alejandro Graham Bell was a man who added light to light and life to life and his unique talent brought this aphorism to mind

“What a beautiful miracle it is to give life!”

Source: Ambito

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