A number of inventors believed that voice and sounds might be carried over wires and all worked toward it but there was only one that ended up figuring it out. The first to achieve this everlasting success was a Scottish-born American inventor , Alexander Graham Bell, a teacher for the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was taught at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He moved to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicizing the system called visible speech . His father, who was a Scottish teacher, developed visible speech, Alexander Melville Bell. Visible speech shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in the making of sound out of the mouth. In 1872 Bell opened a school to train teachers of the deaf in Boston. The school soon became part of Boston University, where Bell was assigned the professor of vocal physiology. He became a U.S. citizen in 1882.Since Bell was 18 years old, he was trying to come up with the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, he figured out the basic parts of the telephone. The experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally was successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: “Watson, come here; I want you.” There were lots of different demonstrations showing the invention, but the most popular one was the one at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was when the telephone was introduced to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. When the Bell Telephone Company finally got going the company strongly dheld its patents so it will exclude others from the telephone business. After these patents expired in 1893 and 1894, independent telephone companies started up in many cities and most small towns. A period of combining happened in the early 1900s, and there was ...
