Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is of great importance in the world of communications. He is best known for his invention, the telephone. He is also known for his association with teaching the deaf and being the president of National Geographic. His background and early education had a great influence on his career. Bell was born on March 3,1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, taught deaf mutes to speak, wrote textbooks on correct speech. His father was the inventor of "visible speech", a code that indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue, and lips in uttering various sounds. The "visible speech" symbols helped to teach the deaf how to "speak". Alexander's mother, Eliza Grace Symonds, was an accomplished musician and portrait painter. When Graham was around twelve his mother began to lose her ability to hear. Graham became an expert in "Visible Speech" so he could help his mother and his father with teaching people. Alexander and his two brothers helped their father give public demonstrations of "visible speech", in 1862. Around the same time, Graham applied for a job as a student teacher at Weston House, an all boys' school near Edinburgh. He taught music and speech in exchange for
He used the money to fund the Volta Laboratory for research, invention, and work for the deaf. The doctors warned that Graham was at risk too. In 1890, Bell established the American Association to promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Sometimes Bell was called into court to testify against those who claimed they had invented the telephone. When his father was unable to do so, Graham taught them. In 1866, he carried out a series of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are spoken. In 1872, he opened a school for the teachers of the deaf. With his invention he revolutionized the way people do business. Graham read a book on acoustics by the German physicist Hermann Von Helmholtz. It was a period in time when there were many new inventions made to make life simpler. While visiting his father in Brantford during 1874, he developed the idea for the telephone. His father closed his business in London and they moved to Ontario, Canada in the August of 1870. Bell went on to experiment with other things for 45 years after he invented the telephone. When Graham returned to Boston, he continued his work with telegraphy, but kept the telephone in mind. In 1880, Bell was awarded the Volta Prize, of 50,000 francs, by the French Government, for his invention of the telephone.
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