Alexander Graham Bell

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Soon he opened schools meant specifically for the deaf people to learn and there are still some schools to this day that have been founded by Bell just for deaf people. During one of his many visits to one of his school he met a young student by the name of Mabel Hubbard “I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil… has ripened into a far deeper feeling” (always inventing, 28) this caused some controversy between the two families because of the significant age difference and the fact the she was deaf, also they didn’t want them to have kids for there was a possibly of deafness being hereditary ( An Inventive Life, 16). Also people in the community were talking about how Bell was going to marry a deaf girl, but despite this wishes of the families the got married and had children who turned out fine. Mabel describes her first meeting wit Bell “I did not like him. He was tall, with jet black hair and eyes but dressed badly and carelessly in an ...

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he and his assistant Watson were experimenting with the idea of sending sound vibrations through wires when a reed that Watson was working with got stuck in the machine but bell in the other room on the other end of the receiver heard Watson trying to get it out. They couldn’t transmit voice yet but they were on their way. Their big breakthrough was made on March 10, 1876, when in one room Bell spilled acid on his pants and said into the newest receiver “Mr. Watson com in there, I need to see you”( Inventor of the Telephone, 12), and the first telephone message was sent. His Last invention was the hydrofoil, which held the water speed record on January 25, 1915 at 112 ...

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