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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."

A Scottish-born inventor and scientist who later became a citizen of the United States, Alexander Graham Bell is best known for inventing the telephone in 1875. Bell began his career as a teacher for the deaf, and he used his understanding of sounds, electrical currents, and telegraph communications to create the telephone. The first words ever transmitted by telephone were Bell's, to his lab assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." The world has been on the line ever since.
Articles:
Alexander Graham Bell
Source:
Monkeyshines on Health & Science, Sep99 Communication, p28
Accession Number:
3654188
Lexile:
1020
Database(s):
Primary Search, Middle Search Plus
Alexander Graham Bell
Source:
Reader's Companion to American History, 1991 Vol. 1 p. 90
Accession Number:
RCAH86
Lexile:
1030
Database(s):
History Reference Center
Thank you, Mr. Bell
Source:
Workforce January, 1997 Vol. 76 Issue 1 p.168
Accession Number:
9710165285
Lexile:
1120
Database(s):
Marshal Cavendish Science Reference Center