Scottish - Inventor | March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
Alexander Graham Bell
FriendshipLoveI Have LearnedKnow
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
IntelligenceYouWillNationElevate
It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
HomeGreatWaterDayFeelProblem
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
ArmyNavyLittleProtectionAgainst
From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.
WorkFatherChildhoodAttention
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
ManJudgmentFinalOwnHimself
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
KnowledgeHandsMy OwnElectricalUp
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
ControlWorldWillNationAir
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
MenAmericaCountryNewspaper
Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.
TimeBelieveProblemEnoughSolution
In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.
TimeConversationFirstBackwards
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
DifficultiesElectricalGivePainter
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