Great Scottish Inventor

Alexander Graham Bell

Hello Mr Bell, good of you to join me:
Hello Graham, thanks for having me:


Graham: So tell me a little about your child hood?
Bell: well, i was born in Edinburgh on march 3rd 1847 and stayed on a street called "south Charlotte street" i had two brothers but sadly one died when i was was 21 and then the other when i was 23 because of the decease tuberculosis. then my mother was going def so i took up form's of sign language.

Graham: So is it safe to say that because of your family's series of unfortunate events you came around with the idea of the telephone? which is a huge thing now a days.

Bell: Well actually its more of my whole life Ive been around speech, my father was a professor in elocution (this is the studies of formal speech) so i was always at his lectures and experiments, then one time when we were in Bell's father encouraged Alec's interest in speech and in 1863, took his sons to see an automaton exhibit, developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone based on the earlier work of Baron Wolfgang Von Kempelen. this was basically a model of a head which could speak, but very simple words and very few. so after this i kind of felt this is were i am going to make a difference.

An example of one of the

first prototype telephones.

Graham: Well since you made the telephone, it has massively exploded, everyone has what we call mobile phones... this is a hand held, no wires phone..
Bell: Really?? wow, i thought that i was just making something that would be good for my generation.. i guess Ive created something that's gone down in history *smiles*
Graham: Yes sir.. i do believe you have.

Graham: Their is not Meany other world famous inventions you have done that we all know and recognise but, that was defiantly the best one. - how does that make you feel?
Bell: Makes me feel very proud to contribute to the human race in a scale i could never have imagined.

Graham: Oh and i almost forgot to tell you! You are actually on the Scottish £1 note, the "pound currency came in after the shillings" this is to mark your 150Th anniversary from when you were born, i belive it was made in august 1997.. would that be correct?
Bell: I'm honored about that, i truly am. and yes, that would be about right.

Graham: Well thank you for spending this time with me to i could interview you.
Bell: My pleasure.. it was very informative about the future with my invention.