1878
I am laughing so hard now thinking of Western Union. They run all Americas Telegraph lines. 2 years ago they gathered all their special minds in a room for thinking for if they should accept my offer or not. They came to me and told me that telephone is just “a fad”. This year they offered me $25 million to get the patent. I told them that I now have my own company. I gave them my business card “Bell Telephone Company” and said them “Give us a call!”. I feel like I made a great invention but I told myself that this doesn’t mean that I should stop my studies. I am working on other inventions. I am trying to transmit wireless voice messages. The idea is that voice messages will be carried by a light beam. I just found an assistant who volunteered to help me his name is Charles Summer Tainter. I believe he will be very useful for me. 1881 This morning President James Garfield's doctor called me. He told me that I should speed up my progress of making a Metal Detector or the president might get worse. This is very honorable for me making a metal detector to save the president of US. Also they are using my invention to communicate with me. I am really flattered right now. Since the day he was shot I am working on this metal detector which I think can help finding the bullet in his body. Doctors think that he won’t live long if they don’t take the bullet out. Thankfully I finished my Metal Detector late at this evening we did it’s test and it looked like it was ready to go. Now I am in the president’s hospital room, I have been trying to find the bullet using the metal detector for over than 4 hours. But it seems helpless, I think the bullet is too deep in his body for the detector to detect it. I wish I was able to save the President. August 3, 1922 I felt like I won’t have energy to write in this journal after today. So I decided to write. My sickness is at it’s worst. Thankfully my lovely wife and my two daughters are looking after me very well. Diabetes is really bad. But I am glad I am not sharing the same end with my brothers. Tuberculosis would be a lot worse. So I am actually glad that my sickness is diabetes. I had a long life for sure but now I see the white light. I can feel death in my bones. I can hardly write this. My hands are shaking. I think that I was helpful to this world. My inventions made a change for sure even in my time. I can happily die now knowing that my family is good and the world is a better place. |
Inventor of the Phone Alexander Graham Bell |
Journals 10-12 |