2. Background Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was homed-schooled until he was 11, and his schoolwork was poor. He enjoyed Science at the Royal High School, but did not do so well academically. When he was playing with a friend when he was 12, he noticed the slow process of husking the wheat grain. He and his brother tried to build a talking robot when he was 16 years old.

3. Idea When he was young he started experimenting with sound. While he was travelling around America and Canada he tried to study the human voice. In 1871 he moved to Boston to work on a machine that could transmit messages through different frequencies. The interesting thing is though that the thing he was working was wasn’t supposed to be a telephone. It was a mistake that resulted in his fame.

4. Plans and Financing He had a lot of backing financially through local investors Thomas Sanders and Gardiner Hubbard. During 1873-1874, Bell and Thomas Watson spent days trying to send a perfect telegraph. Bell came up with another idea, which they could send the messages over wires. After numerous attempts, on March 10 1876, they successfully managed to send the first messages through the wires they were using.

5. Organization After the success of the telephone, he showed his design off to people. He showed his design to the Emperor of Brazil, who was amazed. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company (not to be confused with the present day one Bell). His company faced a series of lawsuits because other people thought they had the idea first. His company would eventually become the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

6. Personal The telephone helped people, because they could communicate with people far away. Alexander Graham Bell has many personality traits. He could be very optimistic, very disciplined, and has perseverance. He died peacefully in Canada on August 22, 1922. In his memory, the telephone company decided to shut down for a minute in Bell’s memory.

7. The future Nowadays, the telephone is the most commonly used invention. It is used in our everyday lives to communicate with people. The telephone has been upgraded into what are called smartphones. These phones don’t require wires, and can be easily carried around.

8. References http://www.biography.com/people/alexander- graham-bell-9205497 http://www.famousscientists.org/alexander- graham-bell/ http://www.famousscientists.org/alexander- graham-bell/ http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=A_Bell_LC_fiel dcrest_es_CA_2011_ul