• Less than 150 years ago there were no telephone.

• Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone.

• Bell was born in Scotland, in 1847.

• Bell lived most of his life in the United States.

• He grew up in a home where sound and speech

            were very important.

• After college Bell taught a class of deaf kids.

• He used his father’s method to teach them how to

           speak.

• In his free time he did experiments with electricity.

• He wanted to see what kinds of sounds could be

           sent through an electric wire.

• Tragedy struck the Bell family.

• Both of Alexander’s brothers died from a lung disease

           called tuberculosis.

• Bell grew stronger and stayed well.

• Two years later bell moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

• He became a professor at Boston University.

• In 1877 Bell married a deaf woman.

• Bell worked with a telegraph, which is a machine that uses

           electricity to send messages by wire.

• He wanted to see whether two telegraph messages

           could be sent at the same time at the same wire at that same

           time.

• Thats when he first came up with the idea of a telephone.

• He hired an assistant named Thomas Watson.

• Together they experimented with a telegraph.

• Bell was able to figure out how to make a telephone.

• Bell found out the answer the following year.

• It was 1876.

• He and Watson had spent a long time carefully built the first

           telephone.

• Both men were thrilled that the telephone worked after all!

• When Bell showed the first telephone to the public.

• They were amazed by the invention.

• The next year the Bell Telephone Company was formed,

            and telephone service began across America.

• Later, it spread to England and other parts of the world.

• Bell was only 29 years old when he invented the telephone.

• One of his inventions was a flat, wax disc that recorded

           and back sound.

• Bell also helped to develop a device that warns sailors

           about hidden icebergs in the water.

• Today Bell probably wouldn’t even recognize a telephone.

• Our modern-day cell phones don’t even use wires to send

           sound

• But remember this:We wouldn’t any telephones if the first one

           had not been built.

• THANK YOU ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL!!!!!!!!!!