2. A British inventor called, Alexander Graham Bell, was famous. He invented the first telephone.

3. Alexander Graham Bell was born on the third of March 1847 in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. As a young boy, he played his piano to his deaf mother. His father taught deaf people to speak. On his eleventh birthday, as his birthday present, he chose his middle name as Graham. Like his two brothers.

4. When he was twenty – three, Bell and his parents moved to Canada. That’s where he invented lots of things including the metal detector. He became a inventor and an engineer.

5. Bell had an idea about people with no contact with other people? He decided to invent the telephone. However, he heard that Elisha Gray wanted to beat Bell. Alexander and Elisha went to the patent office at the same day! Elisha was explaing but it wasn’t enough. That’s why Alexander was awarded the patent. At the end, Alexander spilt acid (which is poisonous) burned his trousers. After his invention, he started a telephone company. Graham improved his design ; by 1886 one hundred and fifty thousand people had telephones in their houses. On the 15 th January1915 he did the 1 st transcontinental call from New York to San Francisco.

6. Eventually, he died 2/8/1922 at the age of seventy-five because of diabetes.