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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
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I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
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When one door closes, another one opens.
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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Man is the result of slow growth that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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