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world. His invention changed the world and how we as human beings communicate. We no
longer had to write letters or travel long distances to deliver messages. Now people could use
the telephone to contact each other. This invention would lead to other technological advances
down the line such as the cell phone. I mean imagine a world today without cell phones.
Alexander Graham Bell set out to create the telephone to help the world especially the deaf
community. He did so as an immigrant to America. He embodied what people call the American
Dream. He is why many immigrants come to America to be able to have the opportunities to
make a difference and he did just that.
Alexander Gram Bell was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburg, Scotland. His mother, Eliza
Grace Symonds, was hard of hearing and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, taught elocution to
the deaf. They both had an important impact on the person he became and what he did with his
career later on in life. He had two brothers, both of whom passed away from tuberculosis. His
first invention came at the age of 10 when he took a challenge from a mill operator and created
a machine that removed husks from grain. At age 11 he attended the Royal High School in
Edinburg. He did not enjoy school because of their mandatory curriculum, so he left school at
age of 15. In 1865 his family moved to London. He briefly attended University College London
but didnt finish because his family moved to Brandord, Ontario. It wasn't until 1871 that he
moved to America.
He was extremely passionate about helping the deaf community due to the his mother
being hard of hearing and both his father and grandfather teaching in the deaf community.
When he moved to Boston in 1871 he became as teacher at Clarke School. He when on to
open his own school for training teachers of the deaf. The school was attached to Boston
University where in 1873 he was appointed professor of vocal physiology. Throughout his life he
continued to educate the deaf and funded the American Association to Promote the Teaching of
Speech to the deaf.
Bell was not a business man and turned over all business matters to Hubbard and
others so that he could pursue a wide range of inventions and intellectual pursuits. He
experimented with a means to detect metal in wounds and with a vacuum-jacket respirator that
led to the development of the iron lung. He helped Thomas Edison bring his phonograph to
commercial practically and experimented with hydrofoil boats and airplanes. He also founded
the journal science which today is known as the American Scientific Journal. He also continued
to help the deaf community by encouraging integration into society with the help of lip reading
and other techniques. In 1890 he founded the Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922 at his summer home on Cape Breton Island, Nova
Scotia.