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Alexander Graham Bell, a man who changed the world. But what did he do? Why is his name known today? His invention is a way of life, he invented the telephone.

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1 Alexander Graham Bell, a man who changed the world. But what did he do? Why is his name known today? His invention is a way of life, he invented the telephone.

2 HIS LIFE STORY Starting his life on the 3 rd March 1847 in Edinburgh, Bell grew studying sound. Reaching the age of ten, his mother was nearly deaf. She used to press her hearing tube against the piano, when the young inventor was playing, just to hear Bell’s fingers tapping away on the little, white keys. His mother, being deaf, couldn't hear what people were saying when they spoke to her so Bell would tap her, communicating was much easier from then on. At eleven he was given the birthday present of having a middle name, as he was born without one, Bell chose ‘ Graham’. Inspired by his father’s work in teaching deaf people to speak.

3 HIS LIFE STOY PART I I Moving to Canada, was a big step in Bell’s life, his career finally kicked off. Marrying a lady who gave Bell four children was something else Bell became more inspired by, for his wife was deaf Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, and he studied more about human voice and tone, after hearing each of his children laugh, Robert, Edward, Elsie, and Marianne. The inspired engineer, became more and more desperate to make a change in how sound works. THIS IS ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL!!

4 THE INVENTION HOW ITS MADE

5 THE END OF HIS LIFE Bell died of diabetes it was said that he died at 2’ o ‘ clock in the morning. The now dead inventor aged 75 died in August in Nova Scotia. Because of Alexander, we have telephones today and always will.

6 QUIZ TIME 4 YOU QUESTION 1: WHEN WAS ALEXANDER BORN? HE WAS BORN ON THE 3 rd MARCH 1847 QUESTION 2: WHEN DID HE DIE? ALEXANDER DIED IN AUGUST IN NOVA SCOTIA.


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