Essay Archive - Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is a name of great significance in American
history today. A skillful inventor and generous philanthropist, he astounded
the world with his intuitive ideas that proved to be both innovative and
extremely practical in the latter half of the 19th century. Most notable, of
course, are Bell's work in developing the telephone and his venerable life-long
endeavor to educate the deaf. Originally, his only wish was to help deaf people
overcome their difficulty in learning verbal communication, and later was pushed
into researching the possibility of a device that could transmit the human voice
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