graham bell

Alexander Graham Bell 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 …

…that were effected because of him. His life is full of creations and teaching the deaf. He will forever be remebered. Bibliography The World Book Encyclopedia, World Book,Chicago IL,1991). Phil Ault, Wires West: The Story of the Talking wires, Odd, Mead & Company, NY, 1974) Annie E. S. Beard, Our Foreign-Born Citizens, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY, (1955) Robert V. Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of solitude, (1973). Naomi Pasachoff, Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections, (1996).