Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

23 other inventors created electric incandescent light bulbs prior to Thomas Edison. Edison is renowned primarily because he was the first to figure out the business model of electric lighting. Simultaneous independent invention is the norm, true for minor as well as major leaps like calculus, steam engines and the transistor. […] If Alexander Graham Bell had not secured the patent for inventing the telephone, Elisha Gray would have gotten it because they both applied for the telephone patent on the same day (Feb 14, 1876).

Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can be traced back - from one genius to another, at least - back to the genius who put the phone in iPhone: Alexander Graham Bell.

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.