Alexander Graham Bell Giving voice to the world by Mary Kay Carson

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Alexander Graham Bell

• Alexander Graham Bell Giving voice to the world
  by Mary Kay Carson

Power point by Emily Overby
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About Bell

• Bell the IV was born on March 3, of 1847 to Eliza
  Symonds Bell and Alexander Melville Bell the III
  in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• He pasted away on August 2, of 1922 from diabetes
  and old age at Beinn Bhreagh, on Cape Breton
  Island in his estate.
• Alexander Graham Bell is mostly famous for his
  many inventions such as the first telephone,
  wireless photo phone, a harmonic telegraph, etc.
• I chose this person because I known I wanted to
  do an inventor and since a lot of my peers have
  cell phones I thought it would be interesting to
  show they where it all began.

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Bell's Childhood

• Alexander Graham Bell was born without his
  fabulous middle name. On his eleventh birthday he
  adopted the middle name from a family friend
  because he enjoyed it so much and as a middle
  child he wanted to do something to stand out. He
  had two brothers (one older and one younger)
  named Melville James Bell and Edward Charles
  Bell. All of them had a nickname, Melville was
  Melly, Alexander was Aleck, and Edward was Ted.
• As a child Aleck was interested in botany,
  bones, music, and sounds. He played the piano and
  learned to sign another way to communicate with
  his nearly deaf mother. His piano teacher was
  Signor Auguste Benoit Bertini. After his piano
  teacher passed away his mother Eliza taught him,
  but unfortunately his mothers teaching made him
  lose interest.

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Adolescence

• In his school years until high school he and
  his brothers were home schooled by their mother.
  Even though she could not hear them naturally she
  owned a hearing tube which is basically a long,
  narrow tube. One end goes in her ear and the
  other end widens out into a cup shape for the
  speaker to talk.
• Once he was old enough to do the Royal High
  School at age fifteen he gradually became a
  careless student. Sure he was smart but not
  exactly book smart. Alecks dad became worried
  about the carelessness of his work ethic and sent
  him to live with his grandfather for one year in
  London, England. It worked! When Aleck came back
  he walked, talked, and thought much more like a
  studious student.
• At age sixteen he got his first job as a music
  and speech teacher at the Western house Academy
  in Elgin. He was paid in meals, living, Latin and
  Greek lessons, and ten pounds sterling per
  year(75)
• At that time his father had just finished
  creating his new visible language for the deaf.
  His dad first taught Aleck and his brothers the
  language. Aleck learned all of it in the first
  five weeks. Unfortunately their grandfather
  passed away in 1865.(he was eighteen in 1865)

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Adulthood

• On May 17, 1867 only little brother, Ted
  suffered from tuberculosis and passed away. You
  could say that TB was running all over his home
  town because later in 1870 his brand new nephew
  Edward also suffered from tuberculosis at just a
  little over one year of age. On May 28, 1870
  Melly died of TB and was buried next to Ted and
  Grandfather Bell. Alecks parents were worried
  about their only still living son getting a
  little cough so all three of them moved to
  Brantford, Ontario of Canada for the sake of his
  health.
• Living in Canada did improve his health. Once
  he was cured he moved to Boston, Massachusetts
  and became a Professor of vocal physiology at the
  Boston University. Other than teaching the deaf a
  way to speech he was also interested in inventing
  new technology to improve the lives of people.
  For all of his experiments he was able to get
  mechanical help from Thomas A. Watson. For
  financial help Gardiner Greene Hubbarb helped.
  With all of this assistance he was able to create
  the harmonic telegraph.
• As a professor he also tutored some of his
  students like Mabel Hubbarb. After tutoring her
  for awhile he eventually fell in love.
• After he invented the harmonic telegraph
  inventing the telephone was easy. After the
  telephone was created and functioning properly,
  and after they showed it off at the Centennial
  Exhibition, and after the Bell Patent
  Association installed 80 phones they became the
  Bell telephone Company with Bell, Watson,
  Hubbarb, and Sanders.

On July eleventh of 1877 Mabel
and Aleck got married. Their honeymoon was in
Great Britain but turned out to be more
work for Bell. Queen Victoria and a ton of other
people wanted to see demonstrations of the brand
new telephone. They ended up staying in London
for an entire year. Later on May eighth of 1878
they had their child. They decided to name her
Elsie May Bell.
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More Adulthood

• The more famous his invention got the more
  precious it became. At one point in 1878 the
  Western Union Telegraph Company along with Elisha
  Gray and Thomas Edison tried to put Bells
  company out of business. They claimed Bell was
  the theif and Gray really invented it. This case
  was taken to court, and once Bell convinced the
  jury and the Western Union could taste failure
  the gave up. Eventually he quit the Bell
  telephone company and focused more on new
  technology and educating the deaf.
• With everyone getting telephones the city
  streets were clogged with wires hanging up above.
  Bell was sick of it so he invented the wireless
  photo phone with Sumner Taiter. He was so proud
  of his new invention he wanted to name their
  second child photo phone. Instead on February
  fifteen of 1880 they named her Marian Daisy
  Bell.
• When President James Garfield got a bullet
  lodged in an unknown place of his body, it
  inspired Bell to create the telephonic probe and
  the metal detector. He could not save Garfield
  unfortunately because the metal springs in his
  bed were interfering too much. Eighty days later
  Garfield died.
• August fifteenth of 1881 Mabel gave birth to a
  boy they were going to call Edward but he was too
  premature and had respiratory problems and passed
  away in first few hours. The grief and sadness
  inspired Aleck to invent the worlds first
  artificial respirator a vacuum jacket that helped
  the patient breathe in and out. It eventually
  evolved into the iron lung.
• There was no help for their fourth child
  though, Robert Bell also born prematurely and
  passed in the first few minutes on 11-17-1883.
  the time was not all bad though at that time he
  finally opened his school for deaf children in
  Washington D.C.

On August second of 1922 Bell past away
from a medical condition, also diabetes mellitus,
in which the body produces an insufficient amount
of insulin, causing elevated blood sugar,
(Diabetes) and old age.
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Time Line
March 3, 1847 Bell IV was born.
1870 his nephew and older brother past of TB.
In 1862 at age 15 he spent a year in London with
his grandfather. He went from a slacker student
to a studious student.
11-25-1875 Mabel agreed to marry Bell it was
also Thanksgiving and her birthday.
In 1859 at age 11 on his birthday he adopted the
name Graham as a middle name.
1881 he invented the telephonic probe and metal
detector for President Garfield
May 17,1867 his little brother died of TB.
1870 age 23 he emigrated with his parents to
Canada because with everyone dying they were
concerned about his health.
On 1877 it was their wedding day on July 11.
On the honeymoon he ended up demonstrating the
telephone to Queen Victoria and a bunch of other
people.
1922 Bell died because of a serious medical
disease.
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Positive Contributions

• Some positive contributions Alexander Graham
  Bell made to the world were that he invented a
  lot of technology. He invented the telephone,
  harmonic telegraph, wireless photo phone,
  telephonic probe, metal detector, audiometer,
  graphophone, hydrofoil, kites, phonograph, and
  the artificial respirator vacuum jacket. He also
  was able to help Helen Keller express her
  thoughts since she was both blind and deaf. They
  became life long friends. Also he opened two
  schools for the deaf using his fathers visible
  language, one in Greenock, Scotland and one in
  Washington D.C.

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Most Interesting Part of Life

• I think the most interesting part Alecks life
  was that he invented so many things to help the
  world evolve to what it is now. He was an amazing
  inventor in my eyes. The inventor is a man who
  looks around upon the world and is not contented
  with things as they are. That quote he made
  interreges me the most because I think it really
  tells what type of person an inventor is. The
  inventor is haunted by an idea. The spirit of
  invention posesses him, seeking materialization.
  If it wasnt for him, today we would have not
  form of communication.
• Another thing I found interesting about
  Alexander Graham Bell was that he lived/visited
  in a lot of places. He been to London, Bath,
  Elgin, Edinburgh, and other places.

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Questions for Alexander Graham Bell

• If your piano teacher didnt die would you have
  been more into music instead of inventing?
• How do you think life would have been if Edward
  and Robert lived?
• Were you even frustrated communicating with Helen
  Keller?

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Bibliography

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Giving voice to the world
• by Mary Kay Carson