![]() It is an inspiration you cannot help feeling. I noticed at once, when I first came to this country, how the people were all striving for success, and helping others to attain success. “America is a good environment for young men. The most valuable inventions of this century have been made in America.” – Alexander Grahm Bell Unfortunately, it crashed and tore to pieces on landing. It successfully flew carrying a human passenger 168 feet above water when towed behind a steamship. It is quicker to adopt advanced ideas than England or Europe. It was composed of over 3,393 cells, was 40 feet long and weighed 91 kg. “Take the same invention to an American, and if it is intelligently explained, he is generally quick to see the feasibility of it. Take an invention to an Englishman or a Scot, and he will ask you all about it, and then say your invention may be all right, but let somebody else try it first. Americans more quickly appreciate new inventions. They are well contented with the old, and do not readily adopt new ideas. My thoughts run mostly toward inventions. There is hardly the same appreciation of progress there is here. “It is harder to attain success in Europe. An outdoor life is necessary to health and success, especially in a youth.” – Alexander Graham Bell Such a plant is never as successful as a hardy garden plant is. He becomes, as it were, a hothouse plant. Ill health is due to man’s artificiality of living. The mind in a weak body produces weak ideas a strong body gives strength to the thought of the mind. “I believe it to be a primary principle of success ‘mens sana in corpora sano’ - a sound mind in a sound body. Have you not noticed that, often, what was dark and perplexing to you the night before, is found to be perfectly solved the next morning? We are thinking all the time it is impossible not to think.” – Alexander Graham Bell When I have worked a long time on one thing, I make it a point to bring all the facts regarding it together before I retire and I have often been surprised at the results. At night, it follows up what we think in the daytime. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. In addition to inventing the audiometer to detect minor hearing problems and conducting experiments with what today are called energy recycling and alternative fuels, Bell also worked on methods of removing salt from seawater. ![]() “I am a believer in unconscious cerebration. This apparatus was a forerunner of the iron lung used in the 1950s to aid polio victims. ![]()
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