3rd Grade
Virtual Biography Wax Museum
2021

Alexander Graham Bell

Benjamin Kansler

Born in 1847, died in 1922

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Scotland. His dad and grandpa were both speech therapists. Bell learned from them. His two brothers both died from the same lung sickness. He began teaching at a deaf school in 1868. Then the family moved to Canada.

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Two years after his family moved he taught at a new deaf school. Some of his students were older than him! He married one of his students. She was named Mabel Hubbard. He became a American citizen. Soon Bell began experimenting with sound. His experiments helped him make the telephone in 1876. With this invention came the first telephone company: Bell Telephone.
They had four children. None of them were deaf. He became a wealthy man. He used his money to pay for other experiments. He also used it to help other scientists. Bell founded the science magazine, which is still read today. He made National Geographic in 1888.

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1847

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Born in Edinburgh,Scotland

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1870

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Moved to Canada

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1872

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 He made a deaf school in Boston

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1876

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Made the telephone

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1888

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He became an American citizen

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1888

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1890

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made the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

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Made National Geographic

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1922

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Died in Nova Scotia ,Canada

Alexander Graham Bell had two brothers. Melville James Bell (1845–1870) and Edward Charles Bell (1848–1867). They both died of a lung disease named tuberculosis. Melville James Bell was his younger brother.Edward Charles Bell was his older brother. His mom was almost deaf. She used a ear tube. He also sadly died of diabetes.

In 1880, the French Government gave Bell the Volta Prize of 50,000 francs which was worth about $10,000 at the time because of his invention, the telephone. Bell put this money to good use, setting up the Volta Laboratory in Washington. $10,000 was A LOT more money then. Also when he died the telephone system was shut down for one whole minute!

"Before anything else, preparation is key to success"

"The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees".

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so negativity upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us".

"There are no unsuccessful experiments; every experiment contains a lesson".

Bell died on August 2, 1922, at the age of 75 in Nova Scotia, Canada. The cause of his death was complications from diabetes. Bell made many experiments for his children and a LOT more for his grandchildren. He made over one hundred experiments for his grandchildren!

Did you know Alexander Graham Bell made his first invention when he was only eleven? It removed husk from wheat.

Did you know that in 1879, President Rutherford B Hayes put one of the first telephones in the white house?

Did you know Alexander Graham Bell did not have his middle name Graham until he was eleven?

Did you know Alexander Graham Bell was home schooled until he was 10? When he was eleven he went to Royal high school.

Did you Alexander Graham Bell also invented the metal detector?