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Alexander Graham Bell went down in history as the inventor of the telephone. He was born in Scotland in 1847, emigrated to Canada, then moved to the United States and became an American citizen. There he invented the telephone and worked on many other useful and interesting inventions.

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Today we're going to learn
about the famous inventor,

Alexander
Graham Bell.

Alexander Graham Bell, best known
for his invention of the telephone,

was born on March 3, 1847
in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Young Alexander,
called 'Aleck' by his family,

was a curious child who was
very interested in the science of sound.

He loved music,
and taught himself to play the piano.

His father taught elocution,
or how to speak clearly and correctly.

When he was a teenager,
his mother began to lose her hearing,

and that encouraged him
to learn even more about sound.

At the age of twelve,
Aleck created his first invention.

His best friend's family
operated a flour mill.

At the time, it took a lot of work
to remove the husks from the wheat,

but with some
paddles and brushes,

Alexander Graham Bell
invented a dehusking machine

that made the job
much simpler.

In return, his friend's father
gave him a small workshop

to experiment
with his inventions.

Although he was
homeschooled as a child,

Alexander attended
high school in Edinburgh.

He didn't do very well in school,
and left before he finished it.

Afterward, he went to live
with his grandfather in London.

His grandfather
encouraged him

and helped him gain an appreciation
for learning, and soon after,

Bell began teaching
elocution like his father,

and helping deaf people
learn to speak.

By 1870,
when Bell was 23,

both of his brothers had died
from a disease called tuberculosis.

Alexander was sick, too, and his parents
were very worried that he would also die.

They moved
to Canada.

They thought the air there
was healthier than the air in London.

During his time in Canada,
Bell got well again,

and in 1871, he moved
to Boston, Massachusetts.

He began spending less of his time
teaching and more time inventing.

He experimented
with a telegraph

that could send more
than one message at once

by using different
sound frequencies,

and while he was
working on that,

he started to believe
that he could invent a way

to send the human
voice over wires.

Bell did not have much success
with his invention until 1874,

when he met Thomas Watson,
an electrical designer and mechanic,

who helped him
with his work.

On March 10, 1876, Alexander
Graham Bell got his telephone to work.

He said, "Mr. Watson,
come here - I want to see you."

Thomas Watson,
who was in another room,

heard Bell's voice and came to see.
The telephone had worked!

Less than
six months later,

telephone demonstrations were
being given while curious people stood by,

amazed to hear voices
from people a few miles away

come out of
Bell's invention.

Soon, thousands and thousands
of people owned telephones.

After the success
of his invention,

Alexander Graham Bell
got married and had a family.

Although he is best known
for the invention of the telephone,

he invented many other
things throughout his life,

including
the metal detector,

a wireless telephone that
transmitted a signal with light,

a device to detect
icebergs,

an invention to detect problems
with someone's hearing, and more.

In 1915, Bell made the first
transcontinental phone call.

While he was in New York, he talked
to his old assistant Thomas Watson,

who was in San Francisco,
and they heard each other

much more clearly than they did
during the first phone call in 1876.

On August 2, 1922,
at the age of 75,

Alexander Graham Bell died
at his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.

When he died,
every phone in North America

was turned off
and silent in his honor.

I hope you enjoyed learning
about Alexander Graham Bell today.

Goodbye till next time!