| If you've ever had to make or take an important | | | | his brother he found his health improved, and the |
| phone call, then you have something to thank | | | | exhaustion which had plagued him at home going |
| Alexander Graham Bell for. Although others had done | | | | away. He lived near what is now Brantford, Ontario, |
| research into the field before hand, the most obvious | | | | and there created a workshop to explore his |
| piece of Alexander Graham Bell trivia that you will find | | | | inventions and his theories concerning the transmission |
| is that he was the first one to invent a telephone that | | | | of sound using electricity. He spent time in both |
| actually worked. An Alexander Graham Bell quiz will | | | | Montreal and Boston in the time that followed, including |
| teach you that he made his way to this point through | | | | teaching at a school for speech in Boston for deaf |
| his research on speech and hearing to a large extent, | | | | students. One of his students would indeed be Helen |
| as his mother and his wife both were deaf, influencing | | | | Keller. |
| forever the path that this researcher and inventors | | | | Anyone studying for an Alexander Graham Bell quiz |
| work would take him. | | | | has likely heard the name Watson. Thomas Watson |
| An interesting piece of Alexander Graham Bell trivia | | | | was an engineer and mechanic that Bell met, and Bell |
| shows something that he has in common with many | | | | hired him because of the expertise the man had in |
| of the other greatest minds of the world throughout | | | | electrical engineering complimented perfectly the |
| history, and that is that he was an indifferent student at | | | | deficiencies of Bell's in that regard. He had the idea |
| best. When great minds have their own passions and | | | | which would create the telephone, but lacked the |
| interests it has been the model throughout history that | | | | knowledge on how to practically bring it into being, |
| traditional schooling tends to fail them in many regards. | | | | which is what Watson brought to the table. The first |
| He did study at such locations as the University of | | | | words ever spoken over a telephone according to |
| Edinburgh, but he also taught while attending classes. | | | | what we know, were, "Mr Watson - Come Here - I |
| Bell had been sick during his last years in Britain, but | | | | want to See you" spoken by Bell to Watson who was |
| when his family moved to Canada after the death of | | | | working in the next room. |