Alexander Graham Bell lived March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922. He was a was a scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator, and credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Although his invention of the telegram is his most famous accomplishment, Bell also worked with the deaf, and ( made invented other stuff).
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. he was born just Alexander Bell; he did not receive his middle name until his eleventh birthday after begging his father to give him one. Alexander was the second of three sons of Alexander
Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell. His two brothers were Melville James Bell and
Edward Charles Bell, both of whom would both die of tuberculosis. His father grandfather
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He showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry, and music that was encouraged by his mother. He also he reveled in mimicry and "voice tricks" akin to ventriloquism. At the age of twelve Bell built his first invention: a homemade dehusking machine he built for his neighbors that combined rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes. He later created a mechanical head with his brother that could mimic a human voice.
As the rest of the Bell family did, Alexander worked with elocution and speach. At age 16,
Bell secured a position as "pupil-teacher' of elocution and music, in Weston House Academy, at Elgin, Moray, Scotland while he was enrolled in exchange for board and money. The same year, Alexander had joined his father in his work with the deaf and soon assumed full charge of his father’s London operations. In July, 1870, the Bell family settled in Brantford, Ontario,
Canada, where Alexander set up a workshop to continue his study of the human voice. In
October 1872, Alexander Bell moved to Boston and opened up his "School of