ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
(1847 – 1922 )

Today we see school going children having a mobile phone in their pockets. Using a telephone we can talk to our friends and relatives stationed thousands of miles away from us. Telephone was invented by Graham Bell in 1876. “Watson, Watson, come here, I need you” were the first words on telephone.

Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Scotland. He was brought up in Boston, Massachussets. Bell opened a school for dumb and deaf in Boston in 1862. Thomas Watson, a knowledgeable person in the field of telegraphy became his friend, with his help Bell developed the telephone. He was playing instruments earlier. They were used for the benefit of the deaf.

The first permanent telephone line was laid in 1877 after Bell palented telephone in 1876. by 1878 telephone exchanges were set up in USA. Telephone system advanced in course of time and 1915 nearly 3400 miles long Telephone line was laid under the sea. Bell was invited to inaugurate the system. Bell told the authorities at the time of inauguration that Watson should be on the other end of the time. The authorities agreed.

Bell said: “Watson, come here I need you.”
Watson replied in a laughing mood “Sir, at this time I cannot come to you. I am so far off from you that it will take me one week to reach you.”

When Bell died in 1922, all telephones in America remained silent for one minute. Thomas Alva Edison made many improvements in Telephony.