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    past few decades, with abundance of inventions created by brilliant minds have filled the current world. One such brilliant inventor that made his name known in the inventing world back in the 1870s was Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the founding father of the device that could transmit speech electrically; the telephone (Gray, 2011). The telephone was notably fashioned from his attempts to improve an invention that was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse;…

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    Technology and science has definitely evolved throughout the years. We have become a fully connected country where information is at our fingertips. This was unimaginable 200 years ago. It is amazing to see how far humans have come since then. A lot of it is credited to a few key people and inventions from the early 1800s. The first of these inventions is the steam locomotive. This may have been the most defining and important invention during this era. It started to connect the otherwise…

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    The years after the American Civil War have been characterized by Mark Twain and others as “The Gilded Age”. By this statement he means, this period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. Historians have come to the conclusion that there was a decline of human value and low morals from 1870-1910. This was a period of greed, corruption, with Robber Barons, shady business tactics, and horrible political power. However, this era was the making of the modern world. We now have…

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    This biography is remarkably written filled with tons of information, however Bruce doesn’t become as intimate with inspirations of Alexander Graham Bell or the actual telephone being built. To begin, Bruce briefly mentions George Sanders in a few sentences. Such a simple name, but a huge impact to Bell being his first deaf student that he had taught (90-91). From prior research, it is said that George Sanders later went on in life becoming successful in thanks to Bell, however it would’ve been…

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    influential invention of the late 19th century? Well, there are many choices to choose from. There is the light bulb/electricity which is mainly associated with Thomas Edison, the airplane created by the Wright Brothers, the telephone created by Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Watson, and the automobile/assembly line which is mainly related to Henry Ford. These people and their inventions have had an unbelievable effect on our world today. I cannot imagine this world without any of…

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    Alexander Graham Bell was an inventive man who changed the future with everything that he invented. He was a man who started out with teaching the deaf how to communicate. He didn’t just randomly start inventing things. Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized the world with his telephone, schools for the deaf, his other inventions, his integrity as a man and with his family, even though he did not always receive the credit he was due. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and…

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    Helen Keller Helen Keller is one of the most inspiring woman in the blind and deaf community. Becoming blind and deaf at the age of 19 months by an unknown illness, her life was turned around. Although, she didn’t let her difficulties take over. Helen defeated the odds and learned more than anyone could've imagined. She even graduated and decided to inspire others by writing a book about her life. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880 In Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen had a normal childhood until…

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    middle name eccentric, but was not recherche. When he turned 10 years old he beseeched for a middle name just like his other two brothers. For Alexander’s eleventh day of inchoation his father let him have a middle denomination. His father culled Graham, out of reverence to the family’s friend. To other people such as aunts and relatives his denominated remained Aleck. When Bell was a child he showed an abundance of wonder and curiosity about the world. He would accumulate insects…

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    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.…

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    Technology is all around us, I’ve learned from an old class I took that technology is even that of a pencil but here, we will be talking about technology like everyone thinks of technology, the phones, computers, and tablets. Technology has advanced and changed for the better (as most would say) every day since human civilization but in the past 30 years or so technology has taken a big turn into our society and has changed our social norms and everyday way of life. Technology has also changed…

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