Alexander Graham Bell
A Scottish-born inventor and educator by the name of Alexander Graham Bell is well known for his invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell introduced flight as well. Bell summed up his approach to life and to inventing by saying " Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, and explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought." Because of this way of thinking, Bell came up with inventions that we would not be able to live without today. " The telegraph had been invented before Bell's time. Signals, music, and even voice like sounds had been transmitted electronically by wire." Though, the human voice had not been transmitted through wire, Bell was the first to succeed at this. Bel
Bell's family and education greatly influenced his career. Bell's father, Alexander Melville Bell taught deaf-mutes to speak, he also invented "invisible speech," a code of symbols that indicates the position of the throat, tongue, and lips in making sounds. Bell and his brother assisted their father in public demonstrations of visible speech. Later he took over his fathers' work by lecturing in the United States. He specialized in the anatomy of the vocal apparatus at the University College in London. Later, Sarah Fuller, a principle of a school for the deaf in Boston asked Melville Bell to show teachers how to use visible speech, he declined, but sent his son Alexander Graham Bell. In 1872 Bell opened a school for the teachers of the deaf. l had an interest in the human voice that led to his invention of the telephone. Although, when Bell began experimenting, his purpose wasn't to invent the telephone, instead he wanted t
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