Alex Bell

Can you imagine a world without telephones? Now a day, it's hard to imagine life without our instant gateway to the world. Telephones are an important part of our life. They enable us to be accessed anytime, anywhere. They allow for contact between lands and information to be transferred instantly. From getting in touch with your long lost step uncle, to ordering a pizza, the telephone has become one of the most useful, entertaining invention of all time. Who knew it started from a simple mistake? My name is Victoria, and the telephone is only the start to the greatest Canadian of all time, Alexander Graham Bell.

March 3rd, 1847, in Edinburgh, Alexander Graham Bell was born into a very remarkable family. His grandfather Alexander Bell was a respected orator and part time actor who went on to be an influential speech teacher. His Mother was a gifted pianist and his father, Alexander Melville, created Ð''Visible Speech' which helped deaf children to speak. Greatness was expected.

Although Bell was said to be a grave, serious boy, he was also a gifted student. At only 14, he was already creating speech apparatuses with dead sheep's voice boxes that would say MAMA and making dogs growls sound like speech. Later in Bell's life, he attended two Universities and decided to become an elocution teacher.

In the same year, Bell and his two brothers contracted Tuberculosis, and Sadly his two brothers died. After that, Bell's parents relocated him to Brantford, Ontario in 1870. Lucky for us, he fully recovered.

After this devastating event, Bell still carried on with his life, relocating to Boston later that year, to publicize his fathers Ð''Visible Speech' machine. He founded a school for deaf-mutes and was appointed Professor of Vocal Physiology. To help deal with all his mounting stress he would often go to a place he called his dreaming place in Brantford. This dreaming place is where he came up with his greatest idea. He had found a way to transmit speech telegraphically. This became the basis of the telephone.

Bell wanted to start on his invention immediately so he returned to Boston. There was only one problem standing in Bell's way, he was clumsy with his hands and required an assistant. That was how he met Thomas A. Watson, a gifted electrician and model maker. Together, they worked on the project for about a year until June 2nd, 1875, when