Alexander Graham Bell Learn English through story level 3
alexander graham bell the man who
invented the telephone
i was always interested in sounds
my mother was deaf and my father
taught deaf people i was creative
and enjoyed inventing things
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i did a lot of experiments and
one day i invented the telephone
i was born in edinburgh scotland when i
was a child i
liked to learn new things i liked art
poems and music and i could play the
piano
very well
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i invented my first machine when i was
12 years old
i had a friend and his father had a mill
one day we were playing together in the
mill
when my friend’s father told us why
don’t you do something
useful that’s a good idea
i thought and i invented a new machine
my friend’s father was very surprised
the machine could separate the outside
parts of
wheat grains from the inside parts
the machine could do the job quickly
and easily i left school when i was 15
years old because
i wasn’t interested in school lessons
my father was worried about my decision
because he thought education was very
important
he was a professor at edinburgh
university
and worked on visible speech
a system to teach deaf people
i was interested in my father’s work
maybe because my mother was deaf
one day i read a book that gave me an
idea that it was possible
to use electricity to produce
sound i decided
to work on that
but hard times came between 1867 and
1870
two of my brothers became ill with
tuberculosis
and died i also became ill
but i was very weak my father thought
that our family
needed a new start and one day
he made a decision
we’re going to move to canada he said
i was 23 years old when we sailed across
the atlantic ocean
when we were there my father bought a
farmhouse
in ontario life on the farm
was good for my health and it helped me
feel
stronger in ontario
i met the indians from the sixth nations
reserve
learnt their language and used my
father’s system
to help the deaf people in their
community
they were so happy that they named me
honorary chief
to celebrate i put on their clothes
and danced it was great fun
in 1871 my father and i started teaching
deaf people in montreal my father was
such a good teacher
that he received an invitation to work
in boston
in the usa
we traveled there and opened a school to
train teachers of the deaf
suddenly my life became very busy
i spent six months in boston and the
rest at home
in ontario i started my research on
sounds and electricity
i did most of my research on my own at
night
and i was so tired that i often had
terrible headaches
in 1875 when thomas watson became
my assistant i finally got some
help one day
i met a man who was very important in my
life
his name was antonio mayucci
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he showed me his invention a basic
telephone
with one line to carry signals
his invention gave me an idea
soon i started doing experiments to
invent a telephone
with more than one line
on the 2nd of june 1875
my telephone worked for the first time
i was at one end of the line in one room
and watson was at the other end of the
line
in another room watson come here
i want to see you
watson came to see me this was the start
of a revolution
that changed the world i got a patent
for my telephone it was patent number
174 thousand four hundred and sixty five
after that i decided to work hard on my
new invention
i didn’t have much time to work as a
teacher so i
only had two students and one of them
was
maple hubbard mabel was deaf
but she could read your lips and speak
and she later became my wife her father
was a friend of mine
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hubbard was interested in my work and
gave me money for my experiments
with his help i invented a new telephone
that could send messages
more than five miles i offered it to the
company
western union but their president said
it was a toy the american government
said
this telephone isn’t useful and it will
be dangerous
in people’s homes
i decided to start my own company
without
help from businessmen or the government
in 1877 i started the bell
telephone company with mr hubbard
in 1881 i started the volta laboratory
in washington
and invented many useful things
in 1885 i started a new company
i had a very busy life
i was a successful inventor
and businessman