Alexander Graham Bell: A Life of Innovation and Controversy

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[@Biographics]

Thank you, Brilliant! Please do go check them out if you're a fan of learning :-) : brilliant.org/Biographics/

[@jackd5089]

Do Micheal Colins or Éamon de Valera please

[@CherryBlossomOhka]

Please do a bio on Frankie Lymon, Simon. he had an interesting life and none the movies do him Justice, just read the Ebony magazine articles about him and you'll see.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

@@jackd5089 Both would be great, but I'd also fancy seeing Thomas J. Clarke! :)

[@garrettkennedy6280]

Rafi Eitan next?

[@kareemwail4495]

Do Margaret Thatcher

[@HouseNelson]

I had to double check and make sure I was still watching a biographic on Alexander Graham Bell. I thought I must've accidentally switched to one about a presidential assassin.

[@joannivaldi2106]

Me too! Lol

[@ehrldawg]

It still was interesting !!!

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Bell does an Aragon for about 4 minutes in this story. Disappears, but returns.

[@matthewgray758]

Same!!

[@matthewgray758]

Wonder if originally the vid was too shortt

[@pink_alligator]

"As his mother and later his wife were both deaf" ..... thought for a minute that was a alarmingly unaffected manner to talk about incest

[@kaydgaming]

Good job 👍

[@42smmoore]

It wasn't?

[@DavidWCooke]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fvckgoogle7894]

Incest is best. Just don't get her pregnant. I guess that's an advantage of a mother over a sister. Benjamin Franklin would agree (he said that old vs young don't matter much from the neck down).

[@hendrickhenderson8617]

Fvck Google Hell yeah

[@derekbury7262]

The Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Cape Breton Nova Scotia is amazing. All of his inventions, including the MASSIVE Hydro Foil are on display. You can easily spend a day looking at all he created or had a hand in creating them

[@lindaarmstrong3648]

I started losing my hearing when I was 38 (late deafened adult). I went to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) to get trained in another job which included sign language. We had young deaf teachers who’d had their hands tied in boarding school for signing. For many deaf, signing is an intuitive solution to talking. Now they have a broad spectrum approach that encourages the deaf person to do the best they can to communicate. Some deaf are amazing speakers. Others simply don’t see the point. They’re finally free of the pain and suffering hearing people like Bell had on the Deaf Community for way too many years.

[@rednecktruthspouter3485]

I've been wanting to see your take on his biography thank you again Simon! No matter if it is a historical figure I am well versed in or a new individual I am unfamiliar with I never fail to learn something (quite often lots of information mind you).

[@mickyreynolds6263]

As an aviation nerd I feel compelled to mention that the early aircraft that Bell worked on was called the Silver Dart, not the Silver "Dot" like the header says.

[@eltonronjovi2238]

And was the first powered flight in the British Empire, not just Canada.

[@francoisleveille409]

I genuinely have to give you a very big thank you for accurate and complete closed captioning. They seem very much to be made and corrected by humans instead of automated results generated by a KZbin algorithm. This is a tremendous help in understanding the very dense and captivating content of your videos. Very highly appreciated.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Early life 3:10 - Chapter 2 - Moving to canada & continuing research 4:20 - Chapter 3 - First words 6:10 - Chapter 4 - Who invented the telephone ? 9:35 - Mid roll ads 10:50 - Chapter 5 - Success of the telephone 12:10 - Chapter 6 - The volta bureau 14:30 - Chapter 7 - The president is shot 19:35 - Chapter 8 - Continued innovation

[@evan-jq8br]

Thank you man you saved me so much time!

[@JaakkoPeramaki]

Please do Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, man who led Finland through ww2, or Risto Ryti who was president from 1940 to 1944. He took all the blame for allying Finland with Germany so others wouldnt have to face the consequences. im going to keep posting this until you do it :)

[@Hagbergscorner]

Yes!

[@fvckgoogle7894]

Might take a few. I'm sure he added it to the queue.

[@PiousSlayer]

Heya, Can you please do a video about Nobunaga Oda? There are a few videos out on KZbin but many of them have conflicting information. He was a keystone in the unification of Japan and I think a Biographics episode on him would be very fitting.

[@juliansearcie1758]

Hell yeah .love to see that.nobunaga sama

[@abdirahmanabdi8935]

Another Great Video boys. keep up the good work.

[@480pilot]

Really enjoying the new platform!

[@shadysif6220]

21:52--Dr. Doctor. Kaecilius--"Mr..?" Stephen--"Doctor". Kaecilius--"Mr. Doctor"? Stephen--"It's Strange". Kaecilius--"Maybe, but who am I to Judge".

[@Locomattive8572]

Love your videos Simon and team. Would you do the life of Richard Trevithick on day? The man invented the steam locomotive, the steam car, the steam carriage, and worked on pumps that saved the lives of many Tin minors. He also attempted to build the first tunnel under the River Themes, almost died trying. The tunnel left bankrupt. He was left in a unmarked grave in Dartford London. A sad end for one of the greatest inventors in history.

[@landgsmith]

Hit that “bell” to get notified immediately!

[@shirleybray7327]

It was such a fangirl moment for me to hear Simon say my hometown out loud. Brantford - although we natives pronounce it "Brantferd". The Bell Homestead is one of our main tourist attractions. Brantford's nickname is "The Telephone City". The phone company is called Bell, and the old building has a large statue of a seated Alexander Graham Bell at the entrance. Guess where we think the phone was invented and by whom? Thank you for a very interesting video!

[@Asshole88]

Erm by a Scotsman who happened to move to Canada?

[@grc70]

I toured the Bell Museum, in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, as a kid, it was an amazing experience.

[@joannivaldi2106]

Bell, Garfield, Elisha Gray, Meucci, the stupid doctor, there's a lot to learn on this one. I was fascinated by hearing Bell's voice. I found a website that had recordings of voices from history. I was floored when I heard Earnest Shackelton's voice; I adore him!

[@PurplePinkRed]

Agreed! This was an interesting one!

[@jantruitt9241]

Yep was definitely interesting! Thank you!

[@RobinHilton22367]

Hahahahaha, might just be me but at around 2 mins in I interpretted "his mother and later his wife were both deaf" as him later marrying his own mother

[@karlbennett1185]

Easily becoming one of my "if not" favourite channels.....keep it up si 👍😉

[@digapygmy70]

Great video as always. Speaking of wireless technology though, how about a video on Hedy Lamarr?

[@libertygiveme1987]

Thank-You for this!!!! Have ALWAYS been FASCINATED by Alexander Graham Bell!!!!

[@neillenhart6838]

Some of family works at Bell Canada and it’s interesting to see who and how it was started thanks Simon.

[@ryancourt8065]

When Alexander Graham bell invented the telephone... he already had 3 missed calls from Chuck Norris.

[@ThomasTrue]

Here in Edinburgh we have no doubts who invented the telephone. By the way, "big city"? Have you ever been to Edinburgh? Even by modern standards it's tiny. Indeed, it's cramped conditions have often led to epidemics, and it is more likely that is how Bell's brothers contracted TB. I am taking it Bell's metal detector worked on the principle of a beat frequency oscillator. This works on two coils sending and receiving impulses, and when the signal hits metal, the tone changes. Such a device would indeed pick up metal from the bed.

[@mmclaurin8035]

Physical size notwithstanding, I'd say half a million people meets the requirement of "big city".

[@SonjaPierce]

"Big city" is relative. I live in a little rural town of 2500 people, Edinburgh is indeed a big city compared to us. :)

[@terminationshock1356]

As we do here in Italy

[@brentgranger7856]

All of Bell's family members that had the name "Melville" reminded me of Herman Melville, the author of "Moby Dick." Maybe you guys can do a biography about the "father of the modern revenge story" someday.

[@ComtesseRochefort]

VERY interesting, thank you.

[@okAphex]

Thank you for the educational videos. Please do Dr Michiu Kaku!

[@alexandercarder2281]

Oh and thank you very much for such a superb and detailed bio Simon. And you managed to get so much in it, even a presidential assasnation. Not to shabby at all. And I never knew about the HELLO. That was a revelation.

[@cassandraralph5906]

I learned a lot today, as a person who has a hearing problem, I have an understanding of what deaf people have to cope with, in their everyday lives!

[@CatherineMac93]

Very enthusiastic beginning ☺️

[@B2Hives]

Participated in the school of Patent Poaching along with Edison, Wilbur and Orville, and others.

[@dareallirikz8978]

i would love if you did a video on Marcus Garvey

[@pradiptasen3857]

Wonderful videos full of real facts.

[@jacantu10]

The word "both" in "his mother and later on his wife" identify not incest but two individuals. Alexander Graham Bell was not involved in incest. Alexander's wife was Mabel G. Hubbard who died in 1922; as for Alexander's mother, Eliza G. Symonds, died in 1897. Awesome Video and God Speed!

[@akirubamiru6700]

Make a video about Linus Torvald, the man who made the Kernel of Linux, which is the Kernel of Android, that we have in our phones.

[@amandab3946]

akiru bamiru please...?

[@josephrawe4423]

I would love this!

[@fvckgoogle7894]

Isn't that the guy that hosts LinusTechTips? That would be weird. Ever notice he seldom even does living bios (most are dead at the time of upload)? It would be unusual to say the least to do one that's living and also a fellow KZbinr.

[@stevemadsen3347]

@@fvckgoogle7894 not the same person.

[@bofafett7375]

Linus tech tips

[@TheDove25]

Great videos. ⭐️

[@paulmoore9626]

Could you do a video about Robert (Bob) James Keeshan? Otherwise known as "Captain Kangaroo". I love your video about "Mr. Rogers". I grew up watching both and think it'd be cool since they were actually great friends, sometimes doing guest appearances on each others shows. Keeshan's dedication to teaching young children about life and the world they live in is truly heroic in my opinion and his legacy will hopefully live on for generations to come.

[@aleksander10101]

>We could've been saying ahoy now Yet another great thing ruined by Eddison

[@TheLazer3]

The plane was called the Silver Dart and was flown from the frozen surface of Lake Baddeck, Nova Scotia in 1909 and was not just the first powered flight in Canada it was the first powered flight in the entire British Empire. I worked in an aviation museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia where a replica of the plane is today.

[@muralamoomum8287]

Is that the museum down by the airport (well beside the highway/exit to the airport) I have seen the hydrofoil 🤔 it's in the museum in Baddeck

[@politicalxsin]

Brantford is also where Wayne Gretzky is from!

[@amandab3946]

Love the intelligent words that are used, nice to have a video not “dumbed down” for regular folk. Always being lead to the dictionary, thanks @Biographics ! You’ve taught me a new word today: vexatious!

[@ronque23]

“AHOY, AHOY!” Today I found out why C. Montgomery Burns says that when he answers the phone! 😃 ☎️

[@erikad4775]

Ron “I was today years old” when I found out!

[@kingskei1]

That’s brilliant!

[@Magmafrost13]

Nice to see a Biographic that isnt about war

[@MrSladicus]

Really loved the video and appreciated the small mention of my home country of Canada. Would love to hear the story of a famous Canadian. I'd love to see some videos of important Canadians like the controversial Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier. or maybe our Hero of Hope Terry Fox.

[@phantombeard6262]

Would love a video of Terry Fox or William Lyon Mackenzie King.

[@chumpypoodle]

Near where i live is a museum for alexander graham bell, also you use to be go on a schooner ride near there where it would take you out onto the bay and sail past his place he use to own, i think the family still owns it. not to sure on that.

[@dieuble]

I've read in "the Book of Symbols (Taschen) in the article concerning the telephone, that Alexander and his brother had made a pact : the first one who was to die would do everything possible to communicate with the survivor.

[@cobracollie3639]

make one on Rafael Trujillo Attempt #11

[@mikewood8561]

This is the only channel that I can watch and not get angry about you talking about your sponsor. Idk why. Other channels I'm like, I don't care, but for you I don't mind it. Proves how good your channel is.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@jackd5089]

Could you please do Micheal Colins or Éamon de Valera two irish revolutionise, come on you never do any irish men

[@garththeddraig8974]

What about James Connolly? :)

[@AnthonyRobinson-rc9yd]

Yes!!!!!!!!! 🇨🇮

[@waverider8549]

And Countess Markiewicz please

[@muralamoomum8287]

Its prounced like Bra-Door Lake in Cape Breton NS...the museum is actually quite interesting to visit in the town of Baddeck, where Mr and Mrs Bell are buried and their home (Bein Breigh spelling not quite sure of) is still in the family..however it is in need of some repairs apparently, And it is NOT open to the public.. If you come to Nova Scotia, specifically Cape Breton you will understand why Mr Bell loved it so much the views do not disappoint, the people are friendly and it is like "New Scotland" 🇨🇦

[@liamhenderson1328]

3:25 finally someone mentions my city...

[@alynicholls3230]

"induction balance""relates to the design of the coils rather that the circuit itself, there are various different circuits that can be built to make a functioning metal detector, the two most common are VLF, an PI both of these designs can be built with or without induction balance coils. as an aside in bell's detector was built and setup correctly it would have been able to detect the bullet regardless of the metal bed frame.

[@MattanzaMafiaFedora]

Please PLEASE, do Wat Tyler! The Father of English Radicalism who lead the Peasant's Revolt! 🗡🛡✊

[@garththeddraig8974]

They've gotta do Wat Tyler at some point!

[@ThreeNinjaDucks]

@@garththeddraig8974 wat tyler more like what Tyler... God spell check is really an awesome thing

[@kaydgaming]

Oliver who now?

[@ThreeNinjaDucks]

@@kaydgaming where Tyler

[@lewism1995]

Everyone ask Wat Tyler, but nobody ever ask how Tyler 😔

[@manuelmaldonadojr2526]

thank you.

[@laura1443]

🎶 Dr. Doctor Gimmie the news, I got a Bad case of lovin' you 🎶 😂😂😂

[@6uiliny]

Please do one on amelia earhart!

[@vivekvasudevan8710]

Please do a video on OLIVER HEAVISIDE.

[@gerrycampbell-greer165]

Can you do a episode on John Alexander Macdonald please ?

[@camilopoveda9228]

Amazing video as always ! You should do nucky Thompson of Atlantic City or frank hauge of Jersey City Two insanely corrupt New Jersey politicians!!!

[@Ipsifendis]

silver DART. the man pictured is its pilot, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.

[@makalanivance3633]

Hi Mr. Whistler - what role did Granville T. Woods play in the development of the telephone? Makalani

[@nerdnewbgaming6797]

It would be awesome to do one on John Paul Jones of revolutionary war for both Scotts and Americans!

[@joannivaldi2106]

Oh yeah! I read a lot about him. He's the dog's bollocks! Hahaha. 😆

[@cascorick8253]

Dakota Cooper the history guy! he does a real good one on him! You'll find he's better than Simon!

[@primozzaucer5825]

would you consider doing an episode on comic book writer Alan Moore.

[@sallyjanewillis6810]

Please do more on historical female figures.

[@waverider8549]

Would you please cover Siegfried Sassoon or Nestor Makhno. Countess Markiewicz or Manfred Von Richthofen would be awesome as well.

[@francissujayrai8878]

Sir this is my third time requesting you to do a biographic episode on mithilesh kumar srivastav a.k.a Mr. Natwarlal the world biggest con artist. If u like to know his accomplishment please do reply me and I would sincerely help you to get more info about this man character. Please sir it's a request from an indian. Jai Hind.

[@darkglass1]

I've lived on the banks of the Puh-TOE-mick river for 50 years. 😊

[@anelisajustanelisa236]

I too aim to live a life so extraordinary, I'd have poems written, songs sung and my own 29 minute segment on Biographics!

[@Gg-qf6ne]

Make one about Milutin Milankovic or Mihajlo Pupin

[@rskillet5325]

Y’know whatd be cool, doing episodes about landmark Supreme Court cases

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Talk about Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi

[@theredhunter4997]

damn dude your everywhere

[@juliuscaesar8185]

Where do you guys get ur music,

[@abrahamlincoln6994]

Do a video on Al Swearengen or me

[@annad.l6087]

Now I want to build a photophone! 😁

[@bryanbridges2987]

Please do John Smith!

[@bryanbridges2987]

@tatties and eggs No, John Smith from Jamestown.

[@carleahull]

Finally! Some Canadian content!! Please do more, like Prime Minister Lyon MacKenzie King. He was a weird one.

[@carleahull]

Yes he was born Scottish. He also had Canadian citizenship.

[@muralamoomum8287]

@@carleahull hes also buried in Baddeck too so I've always classified him as Scottish/Canadian

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

Great, now I want a Biographics on James Garfield! ;)

[@Mj-fx9no]

Can you make a brezhnev bio

[@Brickinasock]

Great stuff. Freud please.

[@fuckyoualphabet]

I love this goddamned channel.

[@rexfulgur8588]

How about doing YOUR biography at 1 million subs?

[@CherryBlossomOhka]

I'd watch that!

[@IgabodDobagi]

Simon Whistler bio gets my vote.

[@djdange01]

Maybe also do a video about the origin of all the channels you are involved in and all the people involved behind the scenes

[@JohnDoe-vn1we]

How about stop asking as they have said no numorous times.

[@Jeff05Hardy]

thats a really cool idea

[@turbosdolphin]

A friendly correction: I apologize Simon, but if you might have referred to my previous comment on how "Potomac" is pronounced, I was wrong. Dictionary.com lists pronunciation as puh-toh-muh k, and has an audio pronunciation as well.

[@simonle5211]

Nice

[@Jassandro]

can you do a video of Sigmoud freud

[@h_curly6384]

I thought they already did?

[@rhinoceros2469]

Do olga of Kiev or wat Tyler

[@hondacivic6306]

Yes

[@muttmom5]

My father is from Brantford, Ontario. His family and the Bell's were neighbors and one of my grandfather's cousins married Bell's widowed sister in law. My great grandfather turned down the chance to buy into the fledgling Bell Telephone Co. He thought it was a silly invention. There goes my family fortune.

[@lovejerky9307]

Please do a Bio on Jacques COUSTEAU !! The father of SCUBA and underwater preservation THANKS!!

[@fvckgoogle7894]

Dunno why lawmakers of various countries would care who invented it after the the proposed inventor of the telephone died over a century ago and it's now ancient history. It's like taking the radio patent from Marconi and giving it to Tesla in 1943 after he's already dead. Too little, too late and obviously pretty pointless since they can't enjoy bragging rights and royalties/licencing fees/etc. when dead.

[@joannivaldi2106]

Its never too late to correct the record. Even back then there was intellectual theft that led to unfair patents. Those inventors spent their lives inventing things that we use and take for granted today. We have to give credit where credit is due, if only in their memory. I really believe Tesla's brilliance outshone Edison's. Edison was ruthless!

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable, but I did not want to know so much about President Garfield's assassination In about 1861, a German Johann Philipp Reis from Frankfurt am Main, also invented the telephone, which was not mentioned

[@truckingmogul3254]

Granville T. Woods deserves a lot of credit for his contribution to the telephone.

[@Subject295]

Western Union turning down the telephone is like when Kodak Film put down the digital camera in the 1970s.

[@nadiadelatorre3863]

he should have a podcast

[@pascalleelizabeth7866]

Can you do one on Kublai Khan?

[@VicariousAdventurer]

It's interesting that the doctors had not gotten the sanitation point, as I have read that the liberal use of bromine water on instruments drastically increased the survival of wounded soldiers at the end of the Civil War. So some doctors knew better (probably also reading about Lister, too), but amazing that some had not gotten the memo yet.