Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper

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God has distinguished mankind from the rest of creation by creating each person with a mind. However, each person has a different level of intelligence. Over time there have been many great minds who impacted society. One person in particular is Alexander Graham Bell. While Bell is often only associated with his invention of the telephone, he was a man devoted to helping others and devoted his life to improving the lives of others. This is seen in his early life, interaction with Deaf family, teaching career, and inventions. Since a child's family has the biggest role in building the child's personality and developing his or her creativity and intelligence, in addition to genetic factors, it is important to start with the inventor Alexander Graham Bell's early life and family. Bell was born March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland (Pagliari, par 3). According to Clark G Reynold in his Encyclopedia article "Alexander Graham Bell," Bell is an American Inventor of Scottish descent. He has two brother, and he is the middle child. His family was very well-known in the field of elocution. His grandfather, Alexander Bell, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, excelled in this field (Reynold, 4). …show more content…

This is seen not only by his inventions, but by his work as a philanthropist. He started a school to help children with hearing impairments in Washington D.C. and started the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. This association would later help Helen Keller (Bailey, par. 25) He also strived to help others by advancing scientific knowledge. Bell and Hubbard founded the National Geographic Society, which would later produce the National Geographic Magazine. Not long after this, Bell died in Nova Scotia, Canada on August 2, 1922 (Hochfelder, par 1 and 14). While his life ended, his works continue to impact society in a positive

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