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
             electrically driven forks to make vowel sounds. That gave
             him the idea of "telegraphing" even though he had no idea
             how to do it. (World Book Enc., 1991)
             Bad things started to happen to the family.
             Graham's younger brother died of tuberculosis, and his
             older brother died also by the same disease in 1870. The
             doctor told his father that Graham was in danger too, but
             his father gave up his job and moved to Brantford, Ontario,
             Canada, where his father found a healthy climate for them.
             He soon recovered in health. (Our Foreign Born Citizens,
             In 1972, Bell opened a school for the teachers of
             the death. The next year he became a professor at Boston
             College. After a while of working on the p...