How Did Alexander Graham Bell Impact Society

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Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born and raised. He was raised by his mother, Eliza Symonds Bell, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell (Schuman 10). While growing up he was close to his two brothers, Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell (Schuman 11), and his grandfather Alexander Bell (Schuman 10). During his lifetime he moved to many places such as London (“Famous scientist”),Canada, and Boston (“History.com”). At the age eleven, he attended Royal High School at Edinburgh ,but at the age of fifteen, he quit without graduating (Hochfelder). After not graduating from high school, he moved to London. Here he studied at the University of London under his grandfather (“History.com”). Alexander Graham Bell made a large impact on society by inventing the telephone, saving a president, and making more contributions to society in many different ways. After he …show more content…

To make the model, he attached a rotating paddle to nail brushes (“Alexander Graham Bell Inventions”). As a boy, Bell wondered if when dogs bark if they are actually saying any words. With this curiosity, he invented a robot like item to go down into the dog’s throat to see if the dog says words or not (“Lemelson-MIT Program”). At the age of sixteen, Bell created a windpipe that when blown into it the mouth it would make random words (“Famous Scientists”).In 1881, Bell created a metal jacket that helped people breathe better and more efficient (“Alexander Graham Bell Timeline”). As another way to help the deaf, he created a device called the Audio Meter to tell how well a person’s hearing is. Then in 1881, when President Garfield was shot , they called Bell for help. They called him due to his inventions of the metal detector which would tell the doctors working on President Garfield where the bullet was in his body (“Alexander Graham Bell

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