phone in I877	later life Alexander Bell is not interested to devellop his invention into a business he is an inventer he keeps inventing, researching and creating while Theodore N Vail is hired and transforms the Bell Telephone company into en empire Bell Systems and ATT	did you know that Alexander Bell did not only invent the phone only II years old he had already made his first invention in his life he filed I8 patents in his name and I2 shared with collaborators
	Alexander Bell is known to most people as the inventor of the phone but like other great inventors he was a man with unlimited imagination and curiosity due to the phone patent he did not need to worry any more about earning his living and he could consecrate himself to his passion of inventing	phone in I9I3
	he participtes in public events like
	interviews with the Herald Tribune opening of the 6763 km line Montreal-Vancouver banquet held in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal
jan 25 I9I5 Alexander Bell and Thomas Watson were asked to repeat their first phone conversation, at 4.30 pm Bell picks up a phone in New York and talks to Watson at the Pan American expo in San Francisco	Bell repeats the famous phrase from 38 years ago Watson, come here, I want you to which Watson replied I would be glad to come, Mr Bell, but it would take more than a week	click to enlage
view from the House view on the House	but his passion is inventing, searching, experimenting ... mostly at his home Beinn Bhreagh on the Cape Breton Island overlooking Baddeck Bay on a I0 hectar property (now +I 902)
the many inventions Alexander Bell made during his life were dedicated to improuving life for deaf people inventing photophone-transmission of sound precurseur of today's fibre optic and areonautical studies	and while Alexander was experimenting ... it even seams that his wife Mabel had been breeding funny animals like canaries Alexander Bell experimenting flying techniques
	Alexander Bell with some young 'Aviation' friends Thomas Selfridge, Casey Baldwin, J.A.D. McCurdy form the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), which was funded by Mabel Hubbard Bell.
in his life Alexander Bell invented hundreds of things he filed I8 patents in his name and I2 shared with collaborators	Alexander Bell and his wife Marbel Hubbard Bell in their property Beinn Bhreagh/Nova Scotia Canada	in this picture Alexander Bell looks a little bit like Claude Monet more on Mabel Bell Hubbard
	But who are these children paying in Mr Bells garden ? look closer....oh It's Alexander Bell himslef accompagnied by Melville Bell and two charming secretaries but what are they doing watching the sky, better said astromogical observations ... well did Alexander Bell imagine that a good 50 years later some adventorous young people would bring his invention into space ?
Alexander Bell was particulary interested in helping death people and spend a lot of time on their education he also experimenced about sound transmission marine engeneering space frame construction and aronautics	at age 75 he received his last patent for the fastest watercraft of the World called HD 4 a life full of experimentation imagining hundreds of new concepts and inventing the phone ended aug 2 I922 Alexander Bell's grave is on the Beinn Bhreagh estate the public can visit the Alexander Bell National Historic Site when Alexander Bell was buried all the I4 million phone lines existing at that time all over the United States stopped working for a Memory Minute	the couple has 4 children the two sons die in infancy the two daughters Elsie Bell Grosvernor Marian Bell Fairchild
quite a story is waiting .... a story that goes on every day .... the history of the phone	Mabel Bell dies 4 months later Jan 3 I923	did the dauhgters have children ?

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