Three great men, Three great works.

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All of us know them for their great works for us. We always read about them in the newspapers, have to commit their names to our memories so that we are able to pass exams. And their discoveries have changed the way we live and think. Let's know the real reasons and forces behind their discoveries:

1) Alexander Graham Bell : Hello! Hello! Whenever we say hello into our phones we remember him for inventing the first practical telephone for us. You will be surprised to know that he was disappointed instead of being thrilled when he was able to invent it. Actually his wife was deaf and he wanted to invent a machine which could help her to listen. And he ended up in inventing a practical telephone. The intense force of love of a wife was at work here.

2) Alfred Noble : The country swells with pride when its citizen gets a noble prize. Alfred Noble was a arms manufacturer. The significant invention he made was the Dynamite. His business flourished and he was a rich man when one morning a French newspaper by mistake published his obituary with the title Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"). It changed the heart of Alfred Noble. He did not want to be remembered as a death merchant. So he set up the noble prizes. And one is given for peace too. The force of conscience worked here.

3) Thomas Alva Edison : The prolific inventor credited with phonograph, motion  picture camera, electric bulb etc. etc. was infamous in his school as a partially deaf fool. One day a teacher wrote a note to her mother which read, “Tommy, your child, is very stupid. We ask you can get him out of school.” Thomas went to school for a few months. His mother helped him to clear off all odds in life by home schooling him. And you can see how a mother's devotion and confidence in his child created a cool rich dude out of a fool. And it proves that intelligence and smartness have nothing in common. The force of a mother's adamant affection turned the wheel here.