Facts

1. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847.
2. His father was a teacher of the deaf and he invented a system to teach deaf students how to speak.
3. Alexander read a book on electricity and started to do experiments.
4. Both of Alexander’s brothers died of a lung disease called tuberculosis.
5. Two years later, Alexander moved to Boston, Massachusetts and became a professor at Boston University.
6. He started a school for teachers of deaf students.
7. In 1877, Bell married a deaf woman named Mabel Gardiner Hubbard.
8. He worked with a telegraph, which is a machine that uses electricity to send messages by wire.
9.  He hired an assistant named Thomas Watson.
   1.  Based on their experiments, Alexander figured out how to build a telephone.
   2.  Alexander was only 29 years old when he invented the telephone in 1876.
   3. He also invented the phonograph and a machine that warns sailors of icebergs hidden in the water.