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This essay tells the life of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone.
Title: This essay tells the life of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone.
Category: Literature / Biographies
Details: Words: 786 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay tells the life of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone.
In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe.
Alexander Graham Bell might easily have been content with the success of his telephone invention. His many laboratory notebooks demonstrate, however, that he was driven by a genuine and rare intellectual curiosity that kept him regularly searching, striving, and wanting always to learn and to create. He would continue to test …showed first 85 words of 786 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 786 total…the best of which, the Silver Dart, made the first successful powered flight in Canada on February 23, 1909. Bell spent the last decade of his life improving hydrofoil designs, and in 1919 he and Casey Baldwin built a hydrofoil that set a world water-speed record that was not broken until 1963. Months before he died, Bell told a reporter, "There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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