On March 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He received
his education at Edinburgh University and University College, London. He then moved to Ontario, Canada with
his parents in 1870. Both his father and grandfather spent their lives studying human speech and teaching the deaf to speak. Alexander followed in their footsteps. Alexander's main goal in life was to help the deaf.
In the year 1870, Bell began teaching deaf students in Boston, Massachusetts. The next year he started a school for teachers of the deaf which focused on the method of visible speech(sign language). Thje visible speech method was created by his father. He later became a professor at Boston University in 1873.
Between the years of 1874 to 1875, Bell started working on his greatest invention. This invention was the telephone which was inspired by experiments to help the deaf. In Boston, March 10, 1876, the first successful message was transmitted by the telephone. Bell told his......
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