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First Transcontinental Railroad
The first Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the United States in 1869. The Presidents of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connect their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. -
Alexander Graham Bell was born
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. His middle name Graham was added when he was 11 years old. He was the middle child and had two brothers, his older brother Melville, and his younger brother Edward. His father was Alexander Melville Bell and his mother was Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother was almost deaf and his father taught to the deaf. -
American Cival Wal
The American Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The war was fought to determine whether the Union or the Confederacy would be victorious. The Northern victory preserved the United States as one nation and slavery was abolished. The American Civil War was the largest and most destructive conflict in the Western world which led to over 6000,000 soldiers losing their lives. -
Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War, referred to as the War of 1870, was between France and Prussia and the German states and lasted from July 15, 1870 to February 1, 1871. It was the first modern in Europe. This was resulted in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire. The war also marked the final step in Germany's rise to the position of a major continental power. -
Realization of the Telephone
When he was visiting his family in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in July of 1874, he was working with Watson he realized how the telephone could possibly work. He realized that the human voice could move very thin metal discs, which would alter the electric current. Bell said "If I could make a current of electricity vary in intensity precisely as the air varies in density during the production of sound, I should be able to transmit speech telegraphically." -
Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Bell was granted a patent for the telephone on March 10, 1876. Bell and Watson had the first understandable complete sentence transmitted in his laboratory. History states Bell "knocked over a container of transmitting fluid and shouted", "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!" Watson heard Bell's voice through the wire and this event is recorded as the first telephone call. -
Marriage to Mabel Hubbard
On July 11, 1877, Alexander Graham Bell married Mabel Hubbard, who had become deaf at the age of five. Both parents opposed the marriage due to fear that the couple would have deaf children and that Bell couldn't support Mabel on a teacher's pay. Bell refused to be discouraged and visited and wrote to her constantly. Finally more than a year later, she accepted his proposal on Thanksgiving Day, 1876, which happened to be her 18th birthday. -
Awarded Volta Prize
In September, 1880, France awarded Alexander Graham Bell the Volta Prize and $10,000 for the invention of the telephone. With the money, he founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington, where he continued experiments in communications, in medical research, and in techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. -
Invented Vacuum Jacket
In September, 1881, Alexander Graham Bell develops the Vacuum jacket in response to his premature son being unable to breath by himself. The vacuum jacket wrapped around the chest of somebody who could not breath and it used a pump to force air into and out of the lungs. It was later improved and renamed the iron lung which saved the lives of thousands of polio victims. -
Development of Metal Detector
In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell developed a metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate an assassin's bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield. Bell invented this in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal slug. Bell's metal detector was an electromagnetic device he called the induction balance. The metal detector worked correctly, but the attempt was unsuccessful because the metal coil spring bed Garfield was lying on confused the detector. -
Alexander Graham Bell Associated for the Deaf
In 1890, Alexander Graham Bell founded the American Association for the Promotion of the Teaching Speech to the Deaf.. It is now known as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Prior to this, in October, 1883, he opened a school for deaf children in Washington, D.C. -
Henry Ford Introduced The Model T
In October of 1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T into the Ford Motor Company. The Model T was convinced as a practical and affordable Transportation for the common man. In Detroit, MI more than fifteen million Model automobiles were constructed. The Model T sold for $850 in 1908 and dropped to $300 in 1925. -
Hydrofoil Technology
Alexander Graham Bell experimented with hydrofoil technology in 1910. His first successful hydrofoil boat was called the hydrodrome 1. (HD-1) From July to October in 1912 the HD-1 reached a top speed of 50 mph. In December, 1912 the HD-2 and the HD-3 in March of 1913 were both disappointments, not reaching 50mph. On September 9, 1919, the HD-4 set a marine speed record of 70.86 mph and this record lasted for 10 years. -
RMS Titanic Sank
On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, sank into the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was on its maiden voyage from Southhampton, UK to New York City when the ship hit an iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers and crew lost lives. History states that the Titanic was not equipped with enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most famous and tragic oceanic disasters in history. -
World War I
World War I began on July 28, 1914. It was a global war centered in Europe & lasted until November 1, 1918. It was Germany, Austri-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and japan. (Central powers versus the Allied Powers) In 1917, the US joined the Allied Powers. With the defeat of the Central Powers, the death totaled more than sixteen million people, estimated a 9 million members of the military and 7 million civilians. -
Alexander Graham Bell Died
Alexander Graham Bell died on August 2, 1922 in his home in Beinn Bhreagh, his wife Mabel by his side. His death was the result of complications from diabetes, and was buried on a hill overlooking Bras d Or' lake. As a tribute to Alexander Graham Bell's life achievements AT&T silenced all telephones for a whole minute.
