Alexander Graham Bell Biography

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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian inventor and teacher of the deaf. He was born on March 3, 1847, the second of three sons, to his father, Alexander Melville Bell and his mother, Eliza Bell. He died August 2, 1922 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada. Through his study of sound and communication technology he was the first person to successfully construct the telephone. Bell was an extremely significant Canadian. He was greatly influenced by his family, his father and grandfather were both experts in elocution and his mother was an accomplished pianist. Bell also got much of his inspiration from the study of elocution and teaching deaf people. He received many awards and honors, mostly for his invention of the telephone but also for his expertise in the education of the deaf. Bell’s patent of the telephone is the single most valuable patent ever issued and it sparked a revolution in communication technology. Bell was born into a family that imbued him with the potential for greatness. His grandfather began paving the road to Bell’s success when he decided to pursue a career in elocution, the study of the human voice and speech. He passed down this legacy to Bell’s father who married Eliza Symonds, an English painter and pianist. Both Bell’s father and grandfather had also developed methods of teaching deaf people how to speak by using illustrations of how to move the lips and tongue. All of this had a great influence on Bell throughout his life. At an early age Bell had a great interest in music and took lessons from his mother, but as he grew older his enthusiasm faded and he became more interested in inventing and developing new ideas. As a challenge from a mill operator Bell designed a machine that could remove the husks from grain; he later called this his first invention. At age 15 Bell went to live with his recently widowed grandfather in

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