A Brief Biography of Alexander Graham Bell

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91% of adults use cellphones, and without his invention of the telephone, there would never be cellphones, and the way we communicate with the world would be entirely different. (Pewresarch) Michael Hart’s book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History ranks Alexander Graham Bell as the forty second most influential person in history and he is one of the most influential persons in history. Alexander Graham Bell’s influences of his father and grandfather caused him to take interest in the human voice and imitating its sounds. Although he is known for his invention of the telephone, he also invented numerous other things, such as air conditioning. He also received many awards and was placed in charge of various organizations. His most famous invention has probably had the greatest effect on today’s society and the way people communicate.
Graham Bell’s greatest influences were his father and grandfather, who helped the deaf. “Bell became a teacher for deaf students around 1871. Both his father and grandfather had spent their lives helping deaf, and Bell continued in their tradition. In 1872 Bell started a private school to train teachers to communicate with deaf students by using ‘visible speech’, a sign language that his father developed” (Monkeyshines on America). His interest in recreating the sound that the voice makes came from his family. His father had a big part of his most famous invention because without his influence he would have not looked for a way to have sound transported through a wire.
At a young age, Bell started to recreate the sound of the human voice, “At the age of 16, he built a talking machine from rubber and strips of tin. He could make the device’s tin strips vibrate and produce bl...

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