What is honor ? Honor is having high respect;esteem towards someone or something. My definition of honor is to regard or treat someone with admiration and respect. Alexander Graham Bell represents honor to me. ALexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell. He had two brothers, Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell. Alexander Graham Bell has many major accomplishments. He was an inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf students. Bell was one of the co-founders of the National Geographic Society, and he served as its president from 1896 to 1904. He also founded the Journal of Science in 1883. Most Americans know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but few are aware that the central interest of his life was
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Like his father before him, Bell spent his life studying the physiology of speech, once said that “to ask the value of speech is like asking the value of life.” Bell began to teach speech to deaf students using a universal alphabet invented by his father called “Visible Speech.” In 1872 he opened a school in Boston to train teachers of deaf children. The following year he became a professor in speech and vocal physiology at Boston University. While teaching, he experimented with means of transmitting several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire and also with various devices to help the deaf learn to speak. While constantly engaged in scientific experiments, Bell crusaded tirelessly on behalf of the deaf, encouraging their integration into society with the help of lip-reading and other techniques. In 1890 he founded the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Alexander Graham Bell's role as a teacher for deaf individuals and the presence of his deaf wife and mother inspired him to develop his electrical speech machine, or telephone. Aside from the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell didn’t just invent the
Like his father before him, Bell spent his life studying the physiology of speech, once said that “to ask the value of speech is like asking the value of life.” Bell began to teach speech to deaf students using a universal alphabet invented by his father called “Visible Speech.” In 1872 he opened a school in Boston to train teachers of deaf children. The following year he became a professor in speech and vocal physiology at Boston University. While teaching, he experimented with means of transmitting several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire and also with various devices to help the deaf learn to speak. While constantly engaged in scientific experiments, Bell crusaded tirelessly on behalf of the deaf, encouraging their integration into society with the help of lip-reading and other techniques. In 1890 he founded the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Alexander Graham Bell's role as a teacher for deaf individuals and the presence of his deaf wife and mother inspired him to develop his electrical speech machine, or telephone. Aside from the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell didn’t just invent the