Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Born in Edinburgh in 1847, Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized human communication by patenting the first practical telephone in 1876. His lifelong dedication to deaf education shaped his acoustic research, while his restless curiosity drove him to pioneer optical telecommunications, hydrofoil boats, and aeronautics — making him one of history's most versatile inventors.
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Alexander Graham Bell's Other Quotes
I thought that Helmholtz had done it... and that my failure was due only to my ignorance of electricity. It was a valuable blunder... If I had been able to read German in those days, I might never have commenced my experiments!
The photophone is the greatest invention I have ever made, greater than the telephone.
The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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There you are — electronic television!
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