{"id":20080,"date":"2016-03-07T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:32:43","slug":"can-you-hear-me-now-good-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/can-you-hear-me-now-good-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you Hear Me Now? Good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20082\" title=\"Alexander Graham Bell - Davison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Alexander-Graham-Bell-Davison.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Graham Bell - Davison\" width=\"197\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember that old Verizon commercial where the spokesman would ask the question, <em>\u201cCan you hear me now? Good.\u201d <\/em>Well, that tagline wouldn\u2019t have been possible if it wasn\u2019t for Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s invention of the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>It was on this day in 1876 that Bell received a United States patent for his revolutionary new invention.<\/p>\n<p>Every invention has a story and today we\u2019re sharing Bell\u2019s! Growing up, Bell worked with his father in London, where Bell\u2019s father developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf.<\/p>\n<p>This was just the first glimpse of innovation that gleamed through in Bell\u2019s life. During the 1870s, the Bells uprooted their family and moved to Boston, Massachusetts. It was here that Alexander became very interested in exploring the possibility of transmitting speech via wires. It was a curious innovation that left him hungry to find a viable solution \u2013 after all, in 1843, Samuel F.B Morse\u2019s invention of the telegraph made communication almost instantaneous between two locations both far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>The only hiccup of the telegraph was that it still required that hand-delivered messages be sent between telegraph stations and recipients; not to mention, only one message could be transmitted at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20081\" title=\"Alexander Graham Bell Phone - Davison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Alexander-Graham-Bell-Phone-Davison.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Graham Bell Phone - Davison\" width=\"401\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was this problem that Bell set out to fix and fix it is exactly what he did when he created the \u201charmonic telegraph.\u201d This device combined features of a telegraph and record player to give people the ability to speak to one another from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Bell didn\u2019t work alone as he employed the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee that helped him develop a working prototype.<\/p>\n<p>The first iteration of their invention of the telephone worked a little something like this. Sound waves created an electric current that varied in both intensity and frequency, which caused a thin, soft iron plate (a diaphragm) to vibrate. These vibrations were then magnetically transferred to another wire that was connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument.<\/p>\n<p>When the diaphragm vibrated, the original sound was replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, Bell filed his patent a mere two hours prior to Elisha Gray, who had a similar claim. That was a close one! Just three days after filing, Bell\u2019s invention carried its first clear message, <em>\u201cMr. Watson, come here, I need you,\u201d<\/em> a message that was sent from Bell to his assistant.<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn\u2019t end there. In fact, that\u2019s where it begins. Gray was then employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company and worked alongside fellow inventor, Thomas A. Edison to invent their own telephone technology.<\/p>\n<p>Bell wasn\u2019t too happy with this idea, so he sued and the case made its way to the United States Supreme Court, where Bell\u2019s patent rights were upheld.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/alexander-graham-bell-patents-the-telephone\">http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/alexander-graham-bell-patents-the-telephone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/inventions\/alexander-graham-bell\">http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/inventions\/alexander-graham-bell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/pixabay.com\/static\/uploads\/photo\/2014\/07\/26\/06\/48\/alexander-graham-bell-402095_640.jpg<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/media-2.web.britannica.com\/eb-media\/84\/115184-004-9C9C534F.jpg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that old Verizon commercial where the spokesman would ask the question, \u201cCan you hear me now? Good.\u201d Well, that tagline wouldn\u2019t have been possible if it wasn\u2019t for Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s invention of the telephone. It was on this day in 1876 that Bell received a United States patent for his revolutionary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[793,15,1052],"tags":[1881,8,1511,417,714],"class_list":["post-20080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-inventions","category-inventions","category-inventor-monday","tag-alexander-graham-bell","tag-invention","tag-invention-patent","tag-patent","tag-patents-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can you Hear Me Now? 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