Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Edwin S. Grosvenor
Publisher: New Word City
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016-05-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1612309569

". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times Book Review Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. And he examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876

The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876
Author: A. Edward Evenson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786462434

The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent, not the least of which was its collision in the Patent Office with a strangely similar invention by archrival Elisha Gray. A flood of lawsuits followed the patent's issue; at one point the government attempted to annul Bell's patent and launched an investigation into how it was granted. From court testimony, contemporary accounts, government documents, and the participants' correspondence, a fascinating story emerges. More than just a tale of rivalry between two inventors, it is the story of how a small group of men made Bell's patent the cornerstone for an emerging telephone monopoly. This book recounts the little-known story in full, relying on original documents (most never before published) to preserve the flavor of the debate and provide an authentic account. Among the several appendices is the "lost copy" of Bell's original patent, the document that precipitated the charge of fraud against the Bell Telephone Company.

Once Upon a Telephone

Once Upon a Telephone
Author: Ellen Stern
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

This visual history, complete with 200 color and black-and-white illustrations, is a one-of-a-kind tribute to the most influential of modern inventions--the telephone. With an emphasis on the days before 800 numbers and FAX machines, this book is a spirited, nostalgic exploration.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
Author: The History Hour
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781073501328

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone during the years of the Industrial Age in Europe and America. It was the day and age for new innovations and new devices that exploded in the field of manufacturing. While many of those instruments were suited for large companies and the wealthy, why not invent devices that everyone could use? This is the story of Alexander Graham Bell, of his telephone and of all the other inventions that sprung from his fruitful mind. Although he worked with the deaf, he never lived in a world of silence, and neither did his hearing-impaired family and friends. Inside you'll read about Budding Inventor A Lovely Wife: A Loving Life Mixing Business with Pleasure And much more!Alexander Graham Bell was a precious young man, and it didn't dismay him that many others, who were older and more experienced than he, were scrambling to build the world's first telephone. There was a stampede to the patent office toward the latter half of the 19th Century. Patent attorneys were shown anything from rough pencil drawings to scribbled out explanations of how these devices were sure to work. Many, many of the applicants presented verbal ideas. Others, though, designed carefully engineered diagrams and prototypes. Only Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, James Watson, had demonstrated it in front of influential scientists and notable statesmen at a University.

Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone
Author: Jennifer Fandel
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2006-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736896405

Tells the story of how Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, and how his invention changed the way people communicate. Written in graphic-novel format.

Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Great Inventors and Their Inventions
Author: Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1918
Genre: Inventions
ISBN:

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording and others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet, boisterous, confident, withdrawn but all had a moment of vision allied to single-minded determination to battle through numerous prototypes and produced something that really worked. It is a fascinating account for younger listeners.

100 Years of Bell Telephones

100 Years of Bell Telephones
Author: Richard Mountjoy
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Explores the technology & the history of the telephone, from the Coffin sets of the 1870s to the Princess phones of the 1960s and beyond.

The People's Network

The People's Network
Author: Robert MacDougall
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2014-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812245695

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.