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Alexander Graham Bell - Term Papers

Alexander Graham Bell

General Biographical information
Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He went to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicizing a system called visible speech. The system, which was made by his father, the Scottish teacher Alexander Melville Bell, shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in the articulation of sound. In 1872 Bell made a school for deaf and mute people, in Boston, Massachusetts. The school became part of Boston University, where Bell was a teacher of vocal physiology. He became a U.S. citizen in 1882. Since Bell was 18, he had ...

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1877.
 1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston.
 1874-75 he began work on his great invention.
 Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876
 1880 Bell received the French government’s Volta price for the telephone.
 1898 Bell succeeded his father-in-law as president of the National Geographic Society.
 He died at his estate on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia on August 2. 1922.
Major Contributions
Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest contribution to mankind was obviously the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. One year later Bell founded the Bell Telephone Company and began licensing telephone exchanges to route telephone calls through New England. Bell Telephone Company got in a fight with the Western Union Telegraph Company, which had filed a patent for the telephone just hours after Alexander Graham Bell. As part of the deal, in 1879, ...

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Added: 4/18/2004 01:48:18 PM
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