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Il padre, il nonno e il fratello di Bell sono stati tutti associati a lavori sull'[[elocuzione]] e il [[linguaggio]], sia sua madre che sua moglie erano sorde, fattori che influenzarono profondamente gli studi di Bell<ref>Bruce 1990, p. 419.</ref>. Le sue ricerche lo portarono a sperimentare dispositivi acustici che culminarono nel primo brevetto per il telefono nel 1876.{{#tag:ref|Quote: "He thought he could harness the new electronic technology by creating a machine with a transmitter and receiver that would send sounds telegraphically to help people hear."<ref>Black 1997, p. 18.</ref> |group=N}} In retrospettiva, Bell considerò la sua più famosa invenzione un'intrusione nel suo vero lavoro come scienziato e rifiutò di avere un telefono nel suo studio.<ref name="multiref1">MacLeod 1999, p. 19</ref>{{#tag:ref|After Bell's death his wife Mabel wrote to John J. Carty, an AT&T vice-president, and commented on her husband's reluctance to have a phone in his study, saying "[of the statements in the newspapers] ...publishing of Mr. Bell's dislike of the telephone. Of course, he never had one in his study. That was where he went when he wanted to be alone with his thoughts and his work. The telephone, of course, means intrusion by the outside world. And the little difficulties and delays often attending the establishment of conversation... did irritate him, so that as a rule he preferred having others send and receive messages. But all really important business over the telephone he transacted himself. There are few private houses more completely equipped with telephones than ours... and there was nothing that Mr. Bell was more particular about than our telephone service... We never could have come here [to Beinn Bhreagh] in the first place or continued here, but for the telephone which kept us in close touch with doctors and neighbors and the regular telegraph office... Mr. Bell did like to say in fun, "Why did I ever invent the Telephone," but no one had a higher appreciation of its indispensableness or used it more freely when need was—either personally or by deputy —and he was really tremendously proud of it and all it was accomplishing."<ref>Bell, Mabel. [https://ia600208.us.archive.org/17/items/belltelephonemag26amerrich/belltelephonemag26amerrich.pdf Twenty-Five Years Ago: Dr. Bell's Telephone Service (letter, dated August 24, 1922)], Bell Telephone Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, October 1922, reprinted in Bell Telephone Magazine, Autumn 1947, pg. 174.</ref>|group=N}}.