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Alexander Graham Bell- Technology

I am Alexander Graham Bell. I was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Scotland. I invented the telephone in 1876, when I was 29. I entered into the technology section of the category because I was interested in electricity since the time I did a lot of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are made. I got the idea of a telephone when I was visiting my father in Brantford in 1847. Thomas A. Watson assisted me to make the telephone. We met when I needed help from the electrical instrument-making shop. I have a meaningful and a lasting impact because now days, most people have at least one telephone at their houses and uses it frequently. Also now, the telephone developed into many things like a mobile phone. Without my help, none of these things would have existed. You can contact people faraway like in different continents. Because of my invention, telecommunication is cheaper, faster and easier. Many people think that a telephone is one of the most important sources of telecommunication. This means that I am a big part of the telecommunication develovement.

People told me that I was talented at music. I played by ear from when I was a baby and I had musical education too. I acted for a few years and then, I gave dramatic readings from Shakespeare. My two brothers and I assisted my father in public demonstrations of Visible speech from 1862. I became a full-time teacher after studying at the University of Edinburgh for a year. I also studied at the University of London and used Visible Speech to teach a class with only deaf children. 

I am an inquirer. This is because as I said before, I did a lot of experiments to know how vowel sounds are produced. I also read a book about acoustics by the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. This gave me the idea of “telegraphing” speech, though I didn’t know how to do it. This was how I started to get interested in electricity. I didn’t have the idea of a telephone when I firstbegan my experiments. I kept on inquiring from the time I got interested in electricity. I think this is how I was able to get the idea and make the telephone. I am also a communicator because I communicated to deaf people by visual speeches. “Caring” also fits me because when I got the prize of 50,000 francs from the French government for my invention, I used my money to create the Volta Libratory for research, invention and work for the deaf.

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