Alexander Graham Bell
A great and influential man named Alexander Graham Bell was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847 to Eliza Grace Symonds and Alexander Melville
Bell. Bell’s father had a huge influence on is his future career. He was a professor of
speech elocution at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander M. Bell’s reliable books
about elocution and speech were very successful. He started Visible Speech for the blind.
Bell’s mother was deaf which also influenced his work. Without his father and mother,
his life could have had a different outcome.
Alexander was home-schooled as a child till he age of eleven. To further his
education, he enrolled in Edinburgh’s Royal High School. He was not a successful
student, but …show more content…
He improved in his studies. At sixteen, he
learned Greek and Latin at Weston House Academy and taught elocution for money. Bell
and his brother tried making a talking robot. The mouth could say a couple of distinctive
words. He studied and taught at different schools for a couple years.
Bell started teaching lectures in Boston in 1872 about learning system sounds,
which his father invented. He started his own school for the blind and deaf in 1872. He
was chosen to be the professor of vocal physiology in 1873. He started teaching deaf
students privately. In 1873-1876, Alexander Graham Bell was attempting to create a
machine that could convert sounds into a visible imprint. He hoped it could benefit deaf
students. In 1890, Bell and his associates created the American Association to Promote
the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
In 1874, Bell discovered that speech is in patterns. He gained financial aid from
Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders. An electrical engineer named Thomas Watson
helped Bell to invent the telephone. He successfully invented he telephone in 1876. In
that same year, Elisha Gray was applying for a patent for the telephone but used
A great and influential man named Alexander Graham Bell was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847 to Eliza Grace Symonds and Alexander Melville
Bell. Bell’s father had a huge influence on is his future career. He was a professor of
speech elocution at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander M. Bell’s reliable books
about elocution and speech were very successful. He started Visible Speech for the blind.
Bell’s mother was deaf which also influenced his work. Without his father and mother,
his life could have had a different outcome.
Alexander was home-schooled as a child till he age of eleven. To further his
education, he enrolled in Edinburgh’s Royal High School. He was not a successful
student, but …show more content…
He improved in his studies. At sixteen, he
learned Greek and Latin at Weston House Academy and taught elocution for money. Bell
and his brother tried making a talking robot. The mouth could say a couple of distinctive
words. He studied and taught at different schools for a couple years.
Bell started teaching lectures in Boston in 1872 about learning system sounds,
which his father invented. He started his own school for the blind and deaf in 1872. He
was chosen to be the professor of vocal physiology in 1873. He started teaching deaf
students privately. In 1873-1876, Alexander Graham Bell was attempting to create a
machine that could convert sounds into a visible imprint. He hoped it could benefit deaf
students. In 1890, Bell and his associates created the American Association to Promote
the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
In 1874, Bell discovered that speech is in patterns. He gained financial aid from
Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders. An electrical engineer named Thomas Watson
helped Bell to invent the telephone. He successfully invented he telephone in 1876. In
that same year, Elisha Gray was applying for a patent for the telephone but used