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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847. 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
It is now called Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf). (Wires West, Phil Ault, 1974) He was so interested in flying in his life, that he helped finance American scientist Samuel P. In 1907, he helped organize the Aerial Experiment Association, which worked with advanced aviation. So if you think about it, if it weren't for him the world might of been ruled by Hitler or by a communist leader. And then if we did, during World War II, Hitler may have been able to take over Europe without no one here knowing about it. There he developed the method of making phonograph records on wax discs. Edisons phonograph to commercial practicality and started experimenting with hydrofoil boats and airplanes.
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