What was the first thing Alexander G. Bell said on the telephone?
He said it by accident, not realizing it worked. “Watson, I need you”, and his helper heard it. considering his negative impact on the lives of the deaf, it is ironic he was trying to invent a machine to help deaf relatives hear. He made a fourtune from it. The Alexander Graham Bell society was his lasting legacy. It promotes strict oralism to this day. Bell believed that curing deafness in a generation was possible by forcibly sterilizing the deaf. This ignores the fact that most deaf are the childrem of hearing parents and in turn have hearing children. It did inspire Adolf Hitler though and he supposedly wrote a letter to Bell thanking him for it. The Alexander Graham Bell society is still a thorn in the side to most deaf indviduals in America…..
