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Alexander Graham BellInventor of the TelephoneBy Mary Louise Shore2005 *Born: March 3, 1847*Parents: Alexander Melville Bell and Elisa Grace Symonds*Siblings: 2 brothers, Melville and EdwardAlexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland with his family.Childhood Learning From the FamilyAs a child, Bell inherited a musical talent from his mother, who was a musician and also a portrait painter.He was taught by his grandfather and father about public speaking. Hello Grandpa! When Bell was 13 years old, he spent a year with his grandfather in London. To Graham, this year was the “turning point of his life.” Bell read books in the library about Herman von Helmholtz, a German scientist who experimented with electrical vibrations to make vowel sounds. Herman von Helmholtz He researched his experiments so that someday he might be able to reconstruct them in his own home. Early Life At the Age of 16, Graham began to teach music and speech at a boys school. Years later, Bell started teaching his fathers visual speech to deaf and hearing impaired children.Bell at age 29 Tuberculosis-1870 In 1870, Bell’s two brothers died of tuberculosis. Since Bell was also threatened his family decided to move to a healthier environment, Canada. After Graham was safe from catching the disease, his job led him to be a physiology professor at Boston University in the United States.Hello Boston! Good-bye Canada! While Bell was in Massachusetts, he invented the harmonic telegraph, an instrument that makes it possible to send multiple telegraphs on one line.Boston University On March 7, 1876, Bell recieved his patent for the telephone.The Telephone is Patented “Mr.Watson, come here, I want you.” On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in his testing room with his partner, Watson. The experiment they were working with had reeds that were thin and steel. One of the reeds was stuck so Watson plucked it to try to fix i