Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell passed away on August 2, 1922, aged 75, leaving 18 invention patents to his name.
Bell studied to be a speech therapist, what could be considered the family business, at the Royal High School in Edinburgh and later at the University of Edinburgh and University College London although it has always been considered that much of her training was obtained from self-taught way, just like with the piano that he learned to play on his own. When she was only twelve years old, Bell designed a machine consisting of rotating blades with nail brushes to debark wheat and thus help in the work of the Herdman mill, the family of her best friend from her childhood.
In 1864 he began to develop his studies in the field of sound while taking a resident’s place at Weston House Academy but the untimely death of his older brother from tuberculosis in 1868 affected Alexander’s own health, which brought much of his work to a halt. until 1870, when the family moved to Canada and from there he went to Boston. Already in the United States, he would gain fame and recognition by publicizing a learning system for the deaf created by his father and he would like it so much that he soon began to participate in conferences and obtained a position as professor of vocal physiology at Boston University (1873). . It was precisely during these years, when he was fully involved in the sound studio and had a certain reputation, when he would begin the most important stage of his life.
Alexander Graham Bell patented a device capable of converting sound into electrical impulses, which he called a telephone, in 1876. Just a few hours later that same day and with a very similar design, Elisha Gray patented his own version of the invention. Although this particular patent war did not create much of a stir at first, as the potential commercial applications of the telephone were seen, more and more people became interested in knowing who got the credit for their invention. Many years later it would be determined that the true inventor of the telephone (although he called it a teletrophone) was the Italian Antonio Meucci, who had registered it in 1871 but could not afford the patent warning renewal. Still, Graham Bell enjoyed many years of fame that his telephone brought him and was in fact the most admired invention of the World’s Fair in Philadelphia in 1876. Ten years after that time, there were already more than 150,000 telephones installed in the United States. Joined.
1934 Hitler is named Führer
Having risen to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler began a process that would turn the Weimar Republic into a regime built on the radical ideas of the National Socialist Party of Germany (NSPD) and in which all the powers of the state would unite in his figure. From this moment, and just as Mussolini had done with the term ‘Duce’ (chief in Italian), Hitler assumed the title of Führer which means “guide” or “leader” in German. Furthermore, it had been used by the pan-Germanist Georg von Schönerer.
1942 Isabel Allende Llona is born
Chilean writer Isabel Allende, Chilean National Literature Award winner in 2010, was born on August 2, 1942 in Lima, Peru. Distant family of President Salvador Allende, she began her professional career in 1958 as a member of the FAO, a United Nations agency. She worked as a journalist since 1967 and would publish her first novel, The House of the Spirits, in 1982 with enormous success. Her novels, which mix reality and fiction and deal with the female figure and Latin American culture, are recognized throughout the world.