John Tyndall, an English experimenter, demonstrated one before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
In 1874, Alexander Graham Bell spent the summer with his parents in Brantford, Ontario.
The voice of Alexander Graham Bell has been identified for the first time, in a recording from 1885.
After all, no one considers Alexander Graham Bell the inventor of the smartphone or Thomas Edison of the podcast.
Inventor-entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Alexander Graham Bell created new means of communication, which further fostered commerce as well as home life.
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It was founded in 1881 as Japan's first telecom equipment maker and turned out a phone just five years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the device.
But perhaps the most famous early settler was Alexander Graham Bell, who fell in love with Cape Breton because it reminded him of his home country of Scotland.
"Identifying the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who brought us everyone else's voice, is a major moment in the study of history, " said museum director John Gray.
Not since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, or Alexander Graham Bell the telephone, has a human invention empowered so many and offered so much possibility for benefiting humankind.
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He ended with a challenge to the TED audience of technologists and high net-worth world beaters, can you match what Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others achieved in the 19th and 20th century.
The USR9620 was being shown off at CeBIT, where crowds apparently gathered 'round as USRobotics technicians wowed onlookers by making several Skype calls using one of Alexander Graham Bell's original telephones borrowed from the Smithsonian.
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On the surface, the social-networking site would seem a perfect example of the old entrepreneurial model, with Mark Zuckerberg (setting aside the pesky question of whether he really invented the thing) as a sort of modern Alexander Graham Bell.
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But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.
There is actually a direct line from Google Glasses back to the 1860s, when two young inventors, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, working separately and independently of each other both designed devices that could allow people to talk with each other electronically and in real time.
In 1919, at the age of 72, Bell set a marine speed record of 70.86mph on the Bras d'Or Lakes with his HD-4 hydrofoil, a replica of which resides, along with many of his personal artifacts, in the museum of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, across the lake from his house.
To build upon our great entrepreneurial tradition, and to be home to the next generation of innovators like Alexander Graham-Bell and Sergey Brin, we must ensure that government protects and encourages the visionaries who are looking to change the world through innovation.
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