Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth3 March 1847
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
Alexander Graham Bell quotes about
positive adversity opportunity
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
doors
With every door that closes a new one opens.
discovery viva may
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
simple scotland alps
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
successful ideas perfection
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
agnostic
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...
invention
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
technology want telephones
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."