Alexander Bell: Genius Example

My own idea of a creative genius is somebody who thinks or creates something that is ahead of their own time that benefits everyone in their era. Alexander Graham Bell is my idea of a genius. This man was the first to revolutionize long distant communication with others. He was credited with creating the first working telephone. I feel that he should be considered a genius because he had an idea that was ahead of his time. Without him we might now be discovering how to communicate long distance via the telephone. The telephone was the gateway to much of what we have created today. Alexander is also credited with finding techniques to help teach people who are deaf. Those techniques are still used today. Bell and some of his workers were also credited with creating the basic principle for the tape recorder, floppy disc and hard disc. I feel that he not only changed the way we communicate but also thought/created something that was ahead of his time. Not most people would have had the smarts or the ability to create something that we would still use today.