his Popsicle patent. The popsicle can be credited for the entrance of tasty
frozen deserts into the mainstream and happy childrens’ faces around the
world. Today hundreds of millions of Popsicles are eaten in the United
States each year, and there are more than thirty flavors available.
Alexander Graham Bell’s Modern Communication
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist from Scotland (originally) that had
always had a natural curiosity for the world. This resulted in
experimentation with inventing at a young age, most notably a simple
dehusking machine at age 12.
Due to the gradual deafness of his mother starting at a young age, he was
led to study acoustics which eventually led to the invention of the
telephone. Bell’s telephone grew out of improvements he made to the
telegraph. He had invented the “harmonic telegraph” which could send
more than one message at a time over a single telegraph wire. His path to
success was not as clear as one might think and is surrounded by past
failures and controversy.
Bell’s first serious work with sound transmission used tuning forks to
explore resonance. Unfortunately, this groundbreaking undertaking had
already been completed worlds away in Germany. A short change in path
led Bell to transmit sound through electrical means. He experimented first
by trying to transmit musical notes and articulate speech.
Alexander Graham Bell had not set any clear destination and became
overwhelmed by his experiments. After many sleepless nights he created a
harmonic telegraph which became the first stepping stone to the creation
of the telephone. After entertaining other possibilities such as the