Why is Alexander Graham Bell an important person to know?
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Narrator 1: Why is Alexander Graham Bell an important person to know? Narrator 2: Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. Narrator 1: His father was a famous teacher who taught people how to speak well. Narrator 2: Alexander’s mother was deaf. Narrator 1: She was still able to teach him to play the piano. Narrator 2: Alexander was good at music and science. Narrator 1: Alexander was interested in sound. Narrator 2: He also liked to invent things. Narrator 1: He built a machine that could speak. Narrator 2: He also tried to make his dog talk. Narrator 1: In 1871, Alexander moved to Boston. Narrator 2: During the day, he taught deaf students how to speak. Narrator 1: At night, he did experiments with sound. Narrator 2: Alexander wanted to learn more about electricity. In 1874 he met Tom Watson. Narrator 1: Tom knew how electricity worked. They began to work together. Narrator 2: Alexander stopped teaching. He did experiments day and night. Narrator 1: He and Tom wanted to invent a machine that could send voices from one place to another. Narrator 2: On March 10, Alexander and Tom reached their goal. Alexander spoke to Tom through the first telephone. Narrator 1: Alexander and Tom made the telephone better. Soon it could send voices many miles. Narrator 2: In 1915, they made the first telephone call across the United States. Narrator 1: Alexander spent his life inventing. Narrator 2: He died in 1922. Narrator 1: Alexander Graham Bell changed the way people communicate with one another. Directory: file -> view view -> Stage I established Goals view -> Abolition and Women’s Rights in Antebellum America Abolitionism (pp. 344-354) view -> Questions: Why did they call for ending slavery? view -> Group 3b dbq project: 19 view -> The British West Indies were islands that were colonized by Great Britain, stretching across the Caribbean from Jamaica through the Lesser Antilles to British Guiana view -> Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Chase sought to fund the Union war effort by doing all of the following view -> Abolition: the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution Download 10.01 Kb. Share with your friends:
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