Patricia Ryon Quiri

Alexander Graham Bell was a significant inventor in our worlds history. He was a brilliant scientist who was passionate about speech, sound and communication. Without his invention, communication as we know it today would not be the same. Five important facts I learned from this book about Alexander Graham Bell were that he was given no middle name at birth. His father created “visible speech” to help the deaf communicate more effectively by closely watching the movement of the mouth. Alexander Graham Bell almost did not receive the patent for his invention of the telephone. The first telephone message was sent and received on March 10th 1876. While the first coast-to-coast phone call was placed on January 25th 1915. This was nearly 39 years later in England. The book itself appears to be very accurate and detailed in their facts. The organization offers the story of how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Tom Watson invented the telephone.… (más)