Tech History Made on March 3, 1847

On this day 161 years ago Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. We have talked before of Bell's patent war with Edwin Howard Armstrong. We also have discussed one of his inventions, the transistor. Bell's first invention was a dehusker for his friends father to use in his mill. Bell became fascinated by acoustics when his mother slowly became deaf. He developed a hand language to explain the conversations around her. He found that by talking into her forehead very purposely she could understand him. He remember the hand language until his death. His wife said "Don't leave me" and he signed "No"as he slipped away. Makes you wonder, if his mother had not been deaf would he have gone on to invent the telephone?