BIRTH OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Alexander Graham Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone. Describing himself as a teacher of the deaf, he went on to produce a practical device meant for transmission of human voice through electric current. Born and raised up in Edinburg, Scotland, Alexander taught and specialized in speech and vocal physiology. He experimented on several means of message transmission over a wire and with several devices with the aim of helping the deaf learn how to speak. Research on both hearing and speech pushed him to different experimentation on human devices. This later formed the idea of transmitting vocal sounds through airwaves.
Alexander Bell was greatly influenced by his students who were deaf. In addition, his mother and wife were deaf too, which played a key role of his invention.
In his lab in Brantford, Bell worked and tested with a phonautograph, a machine capable of drawing sound wave shapes by tracing and locating their vibrations. He generated electrical current waves that could correspond with the necessary sound waves. Bell later developed a model to help him demonstrate the ideas practically. Thomas Watson later helped Bell to assemble a working model to put his ideas into practice. Watson was an electrical engineer. While working on the model, Watson snapped one reed which enable Bell to hear the overtones of the plucked reeds which later enabled transmission of voice sounds although the clarity of the sounds were not clear.
Although Graham Bell faced many legal suits on patent and registration of his innovations, he later went on to develop the telephone with a series of additional ideas on its expansion and development. He embarked on an awareness campaign to enlighten member of the society and fellow scientists of his new invention. The enthusiasm around his invention laid the platform for worldwide acceptance of the device. The telephone received a global approval and acceptance later in 1876.

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