- The man who built the first telephone was named Alexander Graham Bell.
- Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847.
- Bell taught a class of deaf children, just like his father.
- Alexander married a deaf woman.
- Bell hired an assistant named Thomas Watson who helped him with his experiments.
- Bell spilled battery acid on his clothes and cried out, Watson heard him through the phone and they knew it worked.
- If it weren’t for Alexander Graham Bell forming the first telephone company in 1877, Bell Telephone Company, we wouldn’t be able to talk across the country today.
- Alexander Graham Bell was only 29 years old when he invented the telephone.
- One of Bell’s inventions was a flat, wax disc that recorded and played back sound (the record).
- The telephone and the record weren’t the only things Bell invented! He also helped to develop a device that warns sailors of icebergs hidden in the water.
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