graham bell

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was educated there

and at the University of London. He studied under his

grandfather, Alexander Bell, a well known speech teacher.

(Robert V. Bruce, Bell) His mother, Elisa Grace Symonds,

was a portrait painter and a musician. His father,

Alexander Melville, Bell, taught deaf-mutes to speak and

wrote textbooks on correct speech. He invented “Visible

Speech,” a code of symbols that indicated position of the

throat, tongue, and lips in making sounds. (World Book

Bell and his brothers helped their father in

demonstrations of Visible Speech, Beginning in 1962. He

also became a student-teacher at West House, a boys school

in Edinburgh, where he taught music and speech for

instruction in other subjects. (World Book Enc. 1991) He

became a full-time teacher after studying for a year at the

University of Edinburgh. Then he studied at the University

of London. (A. G. Bell: Making Connections, 1996)

In 1866, he made experiments to find out how vowel

sounds are produced. He read a book on acoustics by a

German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, he used notes of

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