Alexander Bell's Life and How He Changed the Way We Communicate

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Alexander Bell's life and How He Changed The Way We Communicated

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His mothers name was Eliza Grace Symonds Bell and his fathers was Alexander Melville Bell. He had two brothers which had both died from tuberculosis. Their names were Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell. His mother was deaf and this taught him to look past peoples disadvantages and to find solutions to help them. His father was a professor that taught elocution to the deaf which influenced Bell's later career choice as a teacher of the deaf. His middle name was given to him as his eleventh birthday present from his parents because they didn’t give one to him when he was born. When Alexander was 12 he noticed the slow process of husking the wheat grain. He went home and made a device with rotating paddles, with sets of nail brushes that dehusked the wheat. This was his very first invention. In this paper I am going to tell you about Alexander Bell's life and how he changed the way we communicated. (http://www.biography.com/people/alexander-graham-bell)

Bell was homeschooled by his mother and only received one year of formal education in a private school and two years at Edinburgh's Royal High School. After two years of high school he dropped out and traveled to London to live with his Grandfather to take care of him. He then enrolled at Western House Academy. When he turned 16 he got a position as a pupil-teacher of music and elocution at the academy. In 1871, Melville Bell senior was invited to teach at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes, but since his lecture tour conflicted with his teaching he recommended Alexander in his place. He was v...

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...cagotribune.com). What I believe this means is that one someone fails or doesn’t get something another door opens, and they regret that they didn’t try hard enough or didn’t succeed that the door that has open is now closed.(Sydney N, Nytimes.com)

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"Alexander Graham Bell." 2014. The Biography Channel website.Web Feb 07 2014, 04:44 http://www.biography.com/people/alexander-graham-bell-9205497.

"Alexander Graham Bell". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2014. Web. 07 Feb. 2014

Sydney, N. "Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies" The New York Times, Nytimes.com. Web February 21, 2014.

Thompson, Marilyn and Frank, Jackie, “Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice.” chicagotribune.com. Web, April 7, 2014

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