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    the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) is best known for perfecting the telephone to transmit vocal messages by electricity. The telephone inaugurated a new age in communication technology. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution; his grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. After studying at the University of Edinburgh and University College, London, Bell became his father's assistant. He taught the deaf to talk by adopting his father's system of visible speech (illustrations of speaking positions of the lips and tongue). In London he studied Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz's…

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    graham bell was a one of the major contributors to the creation of the telephone alongside Thomas A Watson. Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, scotland. As a child Bell was homeschooled and received one year of education in a private school, in addition he also received two years of education in Edinburgh’s Royal High School. Alexander G. Bell was not a very good academic student, yet showed promise in the world of solving issues. At age 12, Bell created a machine that removed husks…

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    The telephone was needed to communicate with others at important times and at long distances quickly and cheaply. It also was used to talk with friends or family more often. The late 1800’s needed this invention because it was hard to get messages around the world so quickly before it. You also couldn’t see the faces of the person you were talking to, this was made possible after changes were made. There were many problems that came up though. A problem was that Bell made a telephone company…

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    The telephone Influenced society in a way most would know and acknowlege. The telephone is and instrument which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice. The first telephone was inveted by Alexander Graham Bel. Alexander brought together the world’s first telephone, using parts frome a shop of electrical equipment and the skill of his assistant Thomas Watson. In 1876, at the age of 29…

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    “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” Alexander Graham Bell once said.Even if it takes a while to accomplish something that could change the world in a good way, it’s worth the work.Alexander Graham helped the citizens of the United States because he made a way for people & deaf people to socialize from a distance.By eventing the telephone,& photophone for the deaf. Alexander Graham bell was born March 3rd 1847 in…

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    Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Alexander was constantly working on scientific experiments and he became a famous man. Now, hundreds of thousands people can communicate through phones. Bell also worked on a school to help the deaf to enroll. His invention helps life today because we can now communicate through technology called the telephone. Alexander’s Father established a school for the deaf to learn and Alexander also helped the deaf learn. He also inspired …

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    Although Bell had won the previous battle against Western Union, the battle of who provided better service was not over. In 1879, The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was registered and began to work on Edison telephone patents. The first official exchange by The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd. was opened on September 6, in London with 10 initial subscribers, but by February The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd had had opened two other exchanges. The company now served a…

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    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…

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    Alexander Graham Bell was significant to the world because he created a faster and more efficient way of communication by inventing the telephone. Bell’s father, grandfather, and brother has all been associated with work on speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. At the age of twenty three, Alexander Graham Bell moved to Canada with his parents. His research on hearing and speech at Boston University further led him to experiences with…

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    The telephone was first created just to teach deaf students how to visualize sounds. Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone for a specific reason, and ever since the telephone was created it has been a very important object to society and has evolved throughout the course of history. Society did not think that transmitting speech electrically was possible until Alexander Graham Bell created the first working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the original telephone with his…

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