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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell is remembered today as the inventor of the telephone, but he was also a teacher of the deaf and made other things. Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a family of speech educators. His dad, Melville Bell, had invented sign language, a code of symbols for all spoken sounds that help deaf people talk. Alex Bell studied at Edinburgh University and helped his dad at University College. During these years he became very interested in the learning about sound and the parts of speech, inspired by the acoustic experiments of Hermann Von Helmholtz which gave Bell the idea of sending speech. When young Bell's two brothers died of tuberculosis, Alexander’s dad took his remaining family to the better climate of Canada. From there, Aleck Bell journeyed to Boston, in 1871 and joined the staff of the Boston School for the Deaf. The next year, Bell opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf, he also tutored private pupils. Bell's interest in speech a...

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