Our world is really marvelous today. Alexander Graham Bell, interested mainly in developing a device to help the deaf, pioneered a field which today stretches worldwide and reaches into every corner of our lives. Think what this means... by satellite we can speak, send text and images, converse with another person in a different language, monitor a heartbeat or ekg on the other side of the globe. And so much more... so much more...
Thank you Al... you did good work!
Photo: Mike Serafin
Thank you Al... you did good work!
Photo: Mike Serafin
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A little note: the phone you see may look ancient (it's supposed to) but it's touch-tone digital and can reach down the same fibre-optic line with my computer, sharing the bandwidth space with my blogging scribblings, without burping. Yet another example of our amazing modern communicative systems!
Very cool-looking phone! I love it.
Give me a call, sometime, Mary! It doesn't ring as often as I would like!
I didn't know the part about his trying to develope a device for the deaf. Cool phone :]
Thanks, Blue! For a full story on A.G. Bell and his inventions and passion for the deaf, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
for more information.
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