Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 to a family of eminent speech educators and musicians. Bell’s grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. His father, Alexander Melville Bell was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution. He invented “Visible Speech,” which was a code of symbols for all spoken sounds that was used in teaching deaf people to speak. “Visible Speech” shows the articulation of sound on the lips, tongue, and throat. Alexander’s mother was a portrait painter and an accomplished musician. As a child Alexander received his early education at home and graduated at age fourteen from the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He then enrolled as a student teacher at Weston House, a nearby boys’ school, where he taught music and speech and in turn he received instruction in other subjects. Bell then went off to study at the University of Edinburgh and University College, London. After that he decided to look up on a wonderful deed and became his father’s assistant. He taught the deaf to talk by adopting his father’s system of “Visible Speech.” In London he studied Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz’s experiments with tuning forks and magnets to produce complex sounds. In 1865 Alexander made scientific studies of resonance of the mouth while speaking. When Bell’s two brothers died of tuberculosis, his dad took his remaining family to the healthier climate of Ontario, Canada in 1870. From 1873 to 1876 Alexander experimented with multiple telegraphs and one of them was an electric speaking telegraph which is known as the modern day “telephone.” Later he married a woman by the name of Mabel Hubbard who was one of his deaf scholars and was proud to name her his wife. At age twenty-nine Bell invented the first telephone which soon became a huge publicity stunt all over the world. In the year of 1882 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Ill-fatedly Alexander Graham Bell died August 2, 1922 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada at his summer home on Cape Breton Island. He was considered as a remarkable inventor and an astonishing teacher. Bell invented one of the most common used objects in the world and out of open heart aided the deaf.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 to a family of eminent speech educators and musicians. Bell’s grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. His father, Alexander Melville Bell was an expert in vocal physiology and elocution. He invented “Visible Speech,” which was a code of symbols for all spoken sounds that was used in teaching deaf people to speak. “Visible Speech” shows the articulation of sound on the lips, tongue, and throat. Alexander’s mother was a portrait painter and an accomplished musician. As a child Alexander received his early education at home and graduated at age fourteen from the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He then enrolled as a student teacher at Weston House, a nearby boys’ school, where he taught music and speech and in turn he received instruction in other subjects. Bell then went off to study at the University of Edinburgh and University College, London. After that he decided to look up on a wonderful deed and became his father’s assistant. He taught the deaf to talk by adopting his father’s system of “Visible Speech.” In London he studied Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz’s experiments with tuning forks and magnets to produce complex sounds. In 1865 Alexander made scientific studies of resonance of the mouth while speaking. When Bell’s two brothers died of tuberculosis, his dad took his remaining family to the healthier climate of Ontario, Canada in 1870. From 1873 to 1876 Alexander experimented with multiple telegraphs and one of them was an electric speaking telegraph which is known as the modern day “telephone.” Later he married a woman by the name of Mabel Hubbard who was one of his deaf scholars and was proud to name her his wife. At age twenty-nine Bell invented the first telephone which soon became a huge publicity stunt all over the world. In the year of 1882 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Ill-fatedly Alexander Graham Bell died August 2, 1922 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada at his summer home on Cape Breton Island. He was considered as a remarkable inventor and an astonishing teacher. Bell invented one of the most common used objects in the world and out of open heart aided the deaf.
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