1841: Rigging and other equipment salvaged from the ship Manchester, sailing from Havre to Mobile in ballast, were auctioned at Key West. The hull and spars were sold as is,
Alexander Graham Bell, (born March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scotland died August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada), Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph (1886). Alexander (“Graham” was not added until he was 11) was born to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds. His mother was almost deaf, and his father taught elocution to the deaf, influencing Alexander’s later career choice as teacher of the deaf. At age 11 he entered the Royal High School at Edinburgh, but
What Albert Einstein was to theoretical physics, Thomas Alva Edison was to invention, innovation and technology discovery. That’s according to armchair technologists who have accorded both men the dubious honour of household name status.