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His rival, Alexander Graham Bell, thought the better word was "ahoy." Ahoy? "Ahoy," it turns out, had been around longer — at least 100 years longer — than hello.
Jun 28, 2019 · Scottish-born US inventor Alexander Graham Bell did invent the telephone, in 1876. But was “hello” really his girlfriend’s surname? Bell wanted to use ‘ahoy’ as phone greeting
Mar 5, 1992 · ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL invented the telephone. But Thomas Alva Edison coined the greeting.
Hello obviously caught on, and spread along with the telephone. But had the actual inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, had his way, our greetings might be very different today. For his entire life, he preferred to answer the phone with “Ahoy.”
The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo. Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.
Jul 5, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886).
Alexander Graham Bell ( / ˈɡreɪ.əm /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
