Alexander Graham bell was a very important man, not only to Canada but to the whole world as well, and it was not an easy road to success. His contributions to the world of communication were unmatched by any one. This essay will be arguing the facts about Bell that have been stated through 3 main topics, which are, Bell's contribution to deaf people. Graham Bell made a contribution to the communication world. Finally he ran into many problems while in innovations were occurring.
Alexander made an extremely large contribution to the deaf people by doing many things. Before he was born Alec's father was trying to develop a method of speech for deaf people while this experimenting was going on he had a son who little did he know would rock the world with the invention of the phone. During his early years Bell and his father perfected this method of visible speech for the deaf. Alexander invented a glove whit visible speech letters printed on different parts of the glove so when touched by different fingers spelled different words. He and his family toured around the country showing this item off and soon gained much respect. After bell moved to Canada he decided that this glove was not enough. Soon he opened schools meant sp
On his road to success Bell ran into many problems but in the end it shows that if you put your mind to something u can do almost anything. When Bell was just a boy his two brothers died of tuberculosis and his parents were in fear of him dying so they moved to Canada when there he spent a lot of time by himself outside and became friends with some native people and soon was with them all the time teaching them how to play chess, also he made a cove by a river and he would go there for days at a time and just think. All of the fresh air brought Bell to good health and that is when he started doing his prime inventions. Before his magnificent invention of the phone bell went through many failed efforts he could never get the right electric current for sound to be transmitted so it took years for it to be perfected. People heard about bell discovery of sound traveling through wires and decided to try to beat him to it. One man actually patented the idea of sound through wires but never could do it properly. Finally bell came though with his patented invention and patented it learning from previous mistakes. His first public showing of the phone from Brantford to Mount Pleasant bell spoke though the receiver but the other end could only hear crackling so Bell had to ride 8km to Mount Pleasant and change the voltage running through the wires and then finally after 2 tries he got the message to come across. Along the way Bell got a new fascination for flying things. He studies birds for hours and made many different styles of kites and filially he tried to make a flying machine with no motor propelled like a kite by the wind, but unfortunately the Wright brothers came out with a plane with a motor which put Bells machine back in the shed. (Always Inventing, 9)
Alexander Graham Bell was not very important and his inventions would have been done by one of the people who stole them from him. Also it was by accident that he invented the phone and even discovering the theory of the phone was a mistake. He also was
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