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Alexander Gram Bell

Alexander Graham Bell is a name of great
significance in American history today. A skillful inventor and generous
philanthropist, he astounded the world with his intuitive ideas that
proved to be both innovative and extremely practical in the latter half of
the 19th century. Most notable, of course, are Bell's work in developing
the telephone and his venerable life-long endeavor to educate the deaf.
Originally, his only wish was to help deaf people overcome their
difficulty in learning verbal communication, and later was pushed into
researching the possibility of a device that could transmit the human
voice electronically over a distance. After building his first working
telephone model, Bell's fame spread quickly as people in America and
around the world began to realize the awesome potential this wonderfully
fascinating new device held in store for society (Brinkley 481). His
telephone an instant success and already a burgeoning industry, A. G. Bell
decided to turn...

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