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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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