Alexander's Informative Speech

What do you have in your hands, purse, or pocket? You probably have a phone with you. This report is here to talk with you about the man that created the telephone. This man was born in 1847. He created the telephone at age twenty-nine. The telephone has changed the world, and it is now accessible to almost all human beings. This man is Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander was born on March 3, 1847. He was born in Edinburg, Scotland. Mr. Bell received an education in two places, Edinburg and London. In 1870, Alexander immigrated to Canada and lived there. One year later, Alexander moved to the United States of America to teach. In 1882, Alexander became a citizen. His father was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics, and his mother

In 1874, the idea of creating a telephone came to his mind. By 1875, he came up with an easy way to turn electricity into sound. This became known as the telephone. Although other people were working to create the telephone too, Alexander was credited with creating the first telephone. He was the first to design the telephone and the first to transmit human voices into the electric current. On March 7, 1876, Alexander was granted a patent for the telephone. No more than a year later, Connecticut built the first telephone exchange. In 1877, the Bell Telephone Company was created. Bell was the owner and shared a third of his company, and quickly the company made him a wealthy man. By 1880, French Volta Prize awarded Alexander Bell for the invention, the telephone. With the money Bell earned from his award, he founded a lab in Washington, where he continued to do experiments in medical research, in communication, and in techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. Helen Keller was someone that Bell worked with for teaching speech to the deaf(www.bbc.co.uk). Alexander refused to have a telephone in his study, scared that it would distract him from all the scientific work that he was working