Alexander Graham Bell short story
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL SHORT STORY GRAHAM BELL Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States, he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicising the system called visible speech. The system, which was develop by his father, the Scottish educator Alexander Graham Bell, shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in articulation of sound. In 1872, Bell founded a school for dear-mutes in Boston, Massachusetts. The school subsequently became part of the Boston University, where Bell was appointed professor of vocal physiology. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1882. Since the age of 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistants Thomas Watson finally proved successful on...