Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth3 March 1847
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
Alexander Graham Bell quotes about
inspirational life motivational
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
men animal desire
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
track woods behinds
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
air rehabilitation world
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
agnostic
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...
discovery viva may
Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
two safety aviation
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
doors
With every door that closes a new one opens.
success perseverance men
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
people telephones used
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
life eye thinking
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
america cities one-day
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
successful ideas perfection
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
eye path wonder
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut