Alexander graham bell timeline

In 1871, Bell opens a school for the deaf. He opens the school after he finished college, where he learned about the human ear. Bell plans to be with his new school for the rest of his working life. This is a significant event, because Alexander went to college for the this, it lead to his teaching of the deaf, which later lead to his invention of the telephone and because of his prior knowledge about how the human ear receives sound waves it helped him invent the telephone (McCormick 9).

Alexander Graham Bell was born to Alexander Melville and Eliza Symonds Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. His father worked with the deaf, and was the inventor of “Visible Speech,” a universal alphabet that portrays the sounds made by the human voice as a series of symbols. Bell followed in his father’s footsteps to become a teacher of music and elocution and–in 1868–began teaching speech to deaf children in London. In 1870, Alexander and his parents immigrated to Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

The younger Bell soon moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he found work teaching. In 1872, he opened the School of Vocal Physiology in Boston and started experimenting with the multiple telegraph. He met Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and in 1873 met Hubbard’s daughter, Mabel (who was to be his wife).

In 1874, while conducting acoustics experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell conceived the idea for a telephone.

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