graham bell essays

graham bell essays Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he was educated there and at the University of London. He studied under his grandfather, Alexander Bell, a well known speech teacher. (Robert V. Bruce, Bell) His mother, Elisa Grace Symonds, was a portrait painter and a musician. His father, Alexander Melville, Bell, taught deaf-mutes to speak and wrote textbooks on correct speech. He invented Visible Speech, a code of symbols that indicated position of the throat, tongue, and lips in making sounds. (World Book Bell and his brothers helped their father in demonstrations of Visible Speech, Beginning in 1962. He also became a student-teacher at West House, a boys school in Edinburgh, where he taught music and speech for instruction in other subjects. (World Book Enc. 1991) He became a full-time teacher after studying for a year at the University of Edinburgh. Then he studied at the University of London. (A. G. Bell: Making Connections, 1996) In 1866, he made experiments to find out how vowel sounds are produced. He read a book on acoustics by a German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, he used notes of electrically driven forks to make vowel sounds. That gave him the idea of telegraphing even though he had no idea how to do it. (World Book Enc., 1991) Bad things started to happen to the family. Grahams younger brother died of tuberculosis, and his older brother died also by the same disease in 1870. The doctor told his father that Graham was in danger too, but his father gave up his job and moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada, where his father found a healthy climate for them. He soon recovered in health. (Our Foreign Born Citizens, In 1972, Bell opened a school for the teachers of the death. The next year he became a professor at Boston College. After a while of working on the p...