Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone and teacher of the deaf. Alexander Bell was born on March 3, 1847 and died on the 2nd of August in 1922 at the age of 75. He was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father and mother were Alexander Melville and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell.

Alexander Bell began school at the age of 10. He didn’t hate school, he just didn’t like learning. Then his grandpa took Alexander Bell out of school and taught him. Later in his life, he attended the University of Edinburgh. Alexander Bell’s hobbies were to think of inventions. Alexander Bell was married to Mabel Hubbard. Together they had 4 children and their names were: Elsie, Marian, and 2 sons that died as infants. Elsie lived from 1878-1964 and Marian lived from 1880-1962.

Alexander Bell invented the telephone and had many more inventions too. Another invention he made was an early invention of the metal detector. He made it because President Garfield was shot in the back. The doctors tried to find the bullet, but they couldn’t. When Alexander Bell heard about what had happened, he started inventing right away. When he made the invention of the metal detector, he asked if he could test it on President Garfield. But, it didn’t work. It turned out that the bullet was too deep to be detected. A couple days later President Garfield died.

Another famous invention was the telephone. Everyone said that they had thought of the telephone first. One scientist said that they had a model of the telephone. Alexander Bell had faced a lot of court cases and won every one of them because he was the true inventor of the telephone. At one time, Elisha Gray’s company stole the design for the telephone and started making and selling telephones. Then they had a court trial and it lasted several days. Elisha’s Gray company knew they lost before the case even began because they stole the telephone design. Here are some facts about the telephone: on the 2nd of June 1875 Thomas Watsen accidentally plucked one of the reeds and Alexander Bell at the receiver end of the wire, heard the overtones of the reed, overtones that would be necessary for transmitting speech. At this point, they realized they had come up with something important for the invention of the telephone. The telephone helps everyone communicate with each other.

Another important thing that Alexander Graham Bell did was teach the deaf. In October 1872 Alexander Bell opened a school in Boston named Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech which attracted a lot of deaf students. The first class had 30 students.