How Did Alexander Graham Bell Make A Life Worth Learning About

Imagine life with no telephones. No way to connect to faraway relatives or friends, except old letters, and that’s all. Without Alexander Graham Bell, telephones may never have happened. No one could just pull out a phone, but had to write letters that took days, even weeks to send. This made communication from far distances extremely difficult. Bell changed our world, and he lived an interesting life worth learning about.
Alexander Graham Bell lived a strange childhood compared to many modern day childhoods. Alexander was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family consisted of 4 other members. His father, Alexander M. Bell, his mother, Eliza Bell and his siblings, Melville and Edward. When he was eleven, he changed his name
to Alexander Graham Bell instead of Alexander Bell because people think he was tired of being the third Alexander in his family. Alexander did not like school. He started school when he was 11. He went to Royal Edinburgh High School, but not for long. Alexander went for only two years, due to quitting. His father was not happy. So he was sent to London to live with his grandfather after not finishing school. He loved his grandfather. While he was staying in London, his studies improved. He also learned how the human voice works (Generi). Alexander then went to the University of London when he was with his grandfather (History.com Staff). His family and education had a large influence on his career. His father and grandfather both taught deaf mutes speech (Brodsky). Alexander was a successful adult. He worked as a student teacher at West House Boy School. He read a book by Hermann Von Helmholts which gave him the idea of telegraphing speech and started his interest in electricity. In 1866, Alexander did many experiments to find out how vowel sounds were produced. His younger brother died of tuberculosis and a while later his older brother died of the same disease in 1870.This was hard for him. He later took charge of his father’s work while in the U.S. The following year, he became his father’s assistant. While he was there, he opened a school for the deaf in Boston (Brodsky). Then Alexander invented the telephone, which was a huge leap for technology. Afterwards, he soon received the patent for being the official inventor of the telephone in 1876. He was the first person ever to get a patent for a practical device for making voice travel through electric current. Alexander refused to have a telephone in his office for fear that it would distract him from his scientific work (History.com Staff). Alexander had a quiet later life. During his later years, he also worked at making seawater into freshwater, breeding sheep, and making an air conditioning system (Alexander Graham Bell). Sadly, on August 2, 1922 in Novia Scotia, Alexander died. During his funeral all the phones in the world were silent for one minute in honor of him. Alexander was an amazing scientist (Brodsky). He was the inventor of the telephone. The man who changed civilization. He was Alexander Graham Bell. He lived a great and amazing life. Alexander was a phenomenon, a chapter in our history. So, the next time you get on the telephone, for whatever reason, think of Alexander Graham Bell. Works Cited

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