Alexander Graham Bell: A Life of Innovation and Controversy

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@AerialTheShamen]

He only forgot to mention Johann Philipp Reis, who also invented a telephone prototype in 1861 but failed to commercialize it.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@ryancourt8065]

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

[@abdirahmanabdi8935]

Another Great Video boys. keep up the good work.

[@grc70]

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

[@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?

[@AerialTheShamen]

Johann Philipp Reis and Meucci both had earlier created an invention to phone from room to room but had no means or idea to turn this novelty into a public national telephone network.

[@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.

[@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.

[@AerialTheShamen]

Bell was perhaps even more important than Edison and Tesla in the history of spirit communication as he created the basics of EVP research. There was a great rivalry about interdimensional communication between Edison and Bell, who was first with his idea of creating the spirit phone. Bell e.g. experimented with latex balloons initially as a tactile hearing aid for the deaf. Since he was a spiritualist, his work soon found its way into the community, where it developed into what later got known as latex trance. So inflatable trance suits were developed (based on a drysuit precursor) those were used for calming traumatized patients, meditation and for transcommunication with the spirit realm. There is much hearsay and it is hard to find contemporary written texts about their research. Acoustic discoveries of Bell labs quickly found their way through newspapers and newsletters to spiritualists, those created own variants of those research instruments for own experimentation. So the whole concept of vibration transmission through technical means was basically derived from Bell.

[@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

[@AerialTheShamen]

How could they implement this? Not even vacuum tubes had been invented yet, so concepts like a theremin circuit were out of reach. They only had stuff like mechanical buzzer coils those could induce some highvoltage.

[@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

[@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.

[@neillenhart6838]

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

[@slandgsmith]

Hit that “bell” to get notified immediately!

[@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!

[@libertygiveme1987]

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

[@Magmafrost13]

Nice to see a Biographic that isnt about war

[@dareallirikz8978]

i would love if you did a video on Marcus Garvey

[@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!

[@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!

[@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

[@registeelix]

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

[@bekluwe]

The telephone was invented by the German Phillip Reis in 1859. He gave his invention the name “Telephon” and he spoke the first words through a telephone which translates to “The horse doesn’t eat cucumber salad”.

[@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

[@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!

[@B2Hives]

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

[@aleksander10101]

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

[@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" 🇨🇦

[@480pilot]

Really enjoying the new platform!

[@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.

[@politicalxsin]

Brantford is also where Wayne Gretzky is from!

[@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.

[@digapygmy70]

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

[@makalanivance3633]

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

[@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 😔

[@laura1443]

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

[@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!

[@karlbennett1185]

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

[@gerrycampbell-greer165]

Can you do a episode on John Alexander Macdonald please ?

[@JasonL77]

I thought Bell’s first words into a phone were “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”

[@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.

[@chrishenderson9663]

Carmela Soprano: “Did you know that an Italian invented the telephone?” AJ Soprano: “Alexander Graham Bell was Italian?” Tony Soprano: “You see? You see what I’m talking about? Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed!! Everybody knows that!!”

[@athuldas2634]

Hmm is it? But his voice was recorded first I think?

[@Subject295]

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

[@jantruitt9241]

Yep was definitely interesting! Thank you!

[@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!

[@stefanavic6630]

Correction: The first message sent by telephone was Bell describing the lunch he had at the trendy new restaurant by the old wharf, Watson was then socially obliged to feign interest in the interesting fusion of ingredients and presentation.

[@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.

[@AerialTheShamen]

AFAIK "hello" was originally a word to summon a ferryman on a river.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@nettemarie8073]

I'm saying Ahoy now when I answer the phone. Me: *phone rings* Ahoy! Boss: ....what. Me: It's Alexander Graham Bell's fault. Boss: ....what. Me: Bell popularized the word Hello as a greeting, before then people used Ahoy. Boss: ....okay.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

boss: ....k...you are still fired. You are late again...watching another Biographics again?

[@nettemarie8073]

@@UnchainedAmerica its actually became a running joke between me and my boyfriend that Simon is my side chick because I watch the videos all the time while I'm knitting.

[@nickfoster9350]

After inventing the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell had three missed calls from Chuck Norris.

[@cobracollie3639]

make one on Rafael Trujillo Attempt #11

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

A friend of mine was a distant relative of Elisha Gray, she passed age 94 in 2020.

[@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.

[@popindosin228]

He invented phone and his surname was "Bell". We definitely live in simulation.

[@AerialTheShamen]

And the inventor of the perforated disc musicbox had the German name "Lochmann" (hole-man).

[@TheDove25]

Great videos. ⭐️

[@rskillet5325]

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

[@pradiptasen3857]

Wonderful videos full of real facts.

[@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.

[@CatherineMac93]

Very enthusiastic beginning ☺️

[@Jassandro]

can you do a video of Sigmoud freud

[@h_curly6384]

I thought they already did?

[@okAphex]

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

[@truckingmogul3254]

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

[@manuelmaldonadojr2526]

thank you.

[@Ipsifendis]

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

[@ComtesseRochefort]

VERY interesting, thank you.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@djdange01]

Ahoy hoy. I read somewhere that Hello is the most recognized word in the world because of the telephone

[@fvckgoogle7894]

I thought moshi moshi was.

[@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

[@writemaster5462]

When Alexander Graham Bell discovered the first telephone, he got 3 missed calls from Khaligraph Jones.

[@sallyjanewillis6810]

Please do more on historical female figures.

[@nadiadelatorre3863]

he should have a podcast

[@juliuscaesar8185]

Where do you guys get ur music,

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Talk about Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi

[@theredhunter4997]

damn dude your everywhere

[@primozzaucer5825]

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

[@jeremyowen1]

What about an episode on Hugh Glass? He might as well be related to Rasputin.

[@MrVvulf]

Please, pretty please, do the biography for Michael Faraday. Tesla was great, and is more popular in modern times, but Faraday's contributions are legion. From his wiki - Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, "When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time."

[@pascalleelizabeth7866]

Can you do one on Kublai Khan?

[@liamhenderson1328]

3:25 finally someone mentions my city...

[@annad.l6087]

Now I want to build a photophone! 😁

[@umajunkcollector]

So who invented the microphone and speaker?

[@AerialTheShamen]

This was basically the same thing they had named "telephone". And of course many others later improved it. Early radio headphones (with sheetmetal diaphragm) were still often named telephone receiver.

[@rhinoceros2469]

Do olga of Kiev or wat Tyler

[@starbury64]

Where there is greatness, there is controversy...

[@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!

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

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

[@Gg-qf6ne]

Make one about Milutin Milankovic or Mihajlo Pupin

[@6uiliny]

Please do one on amelia earhart!

[@waverider8549]

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