Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell
By:Nikita

Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh. He was a scientist. When he was young, sound fascinated him. At the age of 16, he started to teach, he taught music and speech, after a year of teaching, he went to university in Edinburgh and then he returned to teaching. Then at the age of 23, he went to “Boston School of Deaf Mutes” in the United States.
Bell had the idea that if a telegraph line only carried two messages at once, maybe he could invent a line that could send out 6 or 8 messages at a time. Alexander created the first telephone in 1876. Then Bell, started to teach, opening a school called “School of the Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of speech” in Boston. He had many deaf students. Bell viewed deafness as being rooted out, he also believed that with resources, plus effort, that Bell could teach the deaf to speak, and drive them away from using sign language. But Bell had no time with all the school work and private students. Bell had become a night owl, which did damage to his health, it caused him many severe headaches. Another young inventor named Thomas Edison had the same idea, so Bell always locked up his notes and equipment in a table so no one could take his information. In the fall, Bell chose to keep experimenting with sound and dropped almost all of his pupils except, Georgie Sanders and Mabel Hubbard.
He died August 2nd, 1922 at the age of 75. He died of Diabetes and pernicious anemia. He died in Nova Scotia, he was buried on top of the mountain called Beinn Bhreagh. At the end of his funereal, “every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance.”