Alexander Graham Bell: Man of Sound

Author:
Elizabeth Rider Montgomery
Illustrator:
Gray (Dwight Graydon) Morrow
Editor:
Mary C. Austin
Publication:
1963 by Garrard Publishing Company
Genre:
Biography, Non-fiction
Series:
Garrard's Discovery Biographies Members Only (Scientists-Inventors)
Pages:
80
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"I'm going to be a musician," Aleck Bell told his grandfather. "No, you're not," his grandfather said sternly. "You will be a teacher of speech when you grow up."
Both Aleck's father and grandfather were famous teachers of speech. And to his surprise Aleck found he wanted to be one too. At sixteen, he secretly answered an ad for a teacher in Scotland.
Aleck's special ambition was to teach the deaf to speak. When his family moved from Scotland to Canada, he got a job at the Boston School for the Deaf. He taught deaf children, he taught others how to teach the deaf, and he experimented with sound. While working on a multiple telegraph with his assistant, Thomas Watson, Bell got the idea for a "talking telegraph."
Bell's telephone brought him fame and fortune. But perhaps Bell was proudest of the help he gave deaf people, among them his wife. Mrs. Montgomery, the author of over 35 books for children, describes the eager inventor with warmth and clarity.
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