Alexander Graham Bell
British-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell received the first patent for the telephone in 1876, improved the phonograph, and also invented the audiometer, an early hearing aid.
People credit this eminent scientist, engineer, and innovator with the first practical.
Work on elocution and speech associated his grandfather, father, and brother; his deaf mother and deaf wife profoundly influenced work of his life. His research on speech further led him to experiment with devices, which eventually culminated in award of his first patent in United States. In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused in his study.
His marked later life included groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. In 1888, he and other members founded the National Geographic Society.
Honors and tributes flowed in increasing numbers as his most famous ubiquitous item and his personal fame. Bell received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, to the extent of the almost burdensome requests. During his life, he also received dozens of major awards, medals, and other tributes. These included statuary monuments to his newly created form of communication, notably that erected in his honor in Brantford, Ontario, in 1917.
A large number of his writings, personal correspondence, notebooks, papers, and other documents reside at the manuscript division of the Library of Congress in the United States as the Alexander Graham Bell family papers and at the Alexander Graham Bell institute at Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, with available major portions for online viewing.
A number of historic sites and other marks, including the first companies of the United States and Canada, commemorate Bell in North America and Europe.
On religious matters, Bell considered an "agnostic", much to the chagrin of his devout wife.
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“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
“I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I was astounded at its simplicity. I was still more astounded to discover the principle I had revealed not only beneficial in the construction of a mechanical hearing aid but it served as well as means of sending the sound of the voice over a wire. Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when a man gives his order to produce a definite result and stands by that order it seems to have the effect of giving him what might be termed a second sight which enables him to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
“Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.”
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]”
“Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.”
“Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.”
“Don't keep forever on the public road,going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. 'Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.”
“I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...”
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”
“Ketika satu pintu tertutup maka pintu lain akan terbuka... kadang kita terlalu lama terpaku di depan pintu tertutup itu.”
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”