Alexander Graham Bell Research Paper

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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. He was the second of three sons of Alexander Melville and Eliza Bell. Alexander grew up in a world of speech therapy and helping the deaf learn to speak. Bell graduated high school at the age of 13, and studied anatomy and physiology at the University College in London. Under the tutelage of his father, Alexander learned the art of speech, that would later help him during his telephone promotion tours in 1876 and early 1877. In mid-1870, his family and he sailed for Canada due to the epidemic of the white plague spreading, and there he set up a workshop to study the human voice. Two years later after moving to America he established a school for the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts, and the following year became a professor in speech and vocal physiology at Boston University. While teaching he experimented with a means of transmitting several telegraph messages simultaneously over a
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A light beam carried the voice messages and Bell patented the photophone. This was two decades before the first radio messages was sent without wires and a century before optic fiber communications became commercially viable. After this wonderful development, the French government awarded him with the Voltz Price for his achievement in electricity. He used the money given to him to set up the Volta Laboratory as a permanent, self-supporting experimental laboratory devoted to invention. Him and his cousins made invented the flat wax phonograph record here, the first record that could survive repeated playing. He sold the phonograph and took the profits to establish a bureau for the deaf. The Volta laboratory was converted into the bureau for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Relating to the

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