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SPEECH ON ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

HI,GOOD MORNING AND HELLO ARE USED BY BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHEN THEY ANSWER ATELEPHONE.BUT WHO CREATED THIS AMAZING INVENTIN CALLED A TELEPHONE?WELL ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL DID IN 1876.IN THE PAST THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS TELEPHONES SO PEOPLE USUALLY USED TO WRITE LETTERS.THE THING ABOUT LETTERS WAS THEY WERE UNRELIABLE AND SLOW.FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU WNTED TO SEND A LETTER THROUGH A PIGEON,IT COUD GET STRUCK BY LIGHTNING OR FALL AND GET HURT SO IT IS UNRELIABLE.HOWEVER EVEN IF NONE OF THIS HAPPENED AND THE BIRD SAFELY GOT TO ITS DESTINATION,IT WAS VERY SLOW.EVERYTHING WAS DESTINED TO CHANGE ON 3 MARCH 1847 WITH THE BIRTH OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL IN EDINBURG,SCOTLAND.BELL GRW UP AS A CURIOUS CHILD.HE WAS HOMESCHOOLED BY HIS FATHER ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL WHO WAS A SPEECH THERAPIST.AT THE SAME TIME BELL SHWED INTREST IN ART,POETRY AND MUSIC ENCOURAGED BY HIS MOTHER ELIZA GRACE BELL WHO WAS UNFORTUNATELY DEAF.THIS HAD A GREAT IMPACT ON ALEXANDERS LIFE SO HE WANTED TO HELP PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH HEARING LOSS.IN 1871,WHEN BELL WAS 24,HE MOVED TO USA WHERE HE BECAME A TEACHER FOR PEOPLE WHO WERE DEAF.IN 1871,BELL WORKED ON HIS HARMONIC TELEGRAPH .IT COULD TRANSMIT DIFFERENT NOTES AND ELECTRICAL SIGNALS THROUGH THE TELAEGRAPH IF THE NOTES DIFFERED IN PITCH BUT BELL WANTED MORE.HE WANTED TO TRANSMIT THE HUMAN VOICE THROUGH THIS WIRES SO HE HIRED A SKILLED ELECTRICIAN NAMED THOMAS A WATSON.ON 2 MARCH 1875,WATSON WAS TRYING TO LOOSEN A REED WIRE THAT WAS CURLED AROUND A TRANSMITTER AND HE PLUCKED IT BY ACCIDENT.THE VIBRATION PRODUCED TRAVELLED THROUGH THE WIRES ALL THE WAY TO ANOTHER ROOM TO ANOTHER DEVICE WHERE BELL WAS WORKING.HE WAS OVERJOYED. IN 1876,BELL FINALLY PERFECTED HIS INVENTINON AND ON MARCH 7 1876,THE PATENT OFFICE AWARDED ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL FOR HIS INVENTION.THEN PEOPLE STARTED TO USE IT.TODAY WE USE CELLPHONES AND ALMOST EVERYONE HAS IT.BUT EVERYTHING STARTED FROM ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.IF IT WASNT FOR HIM,WE WOULDNT EVEN HAVE TELEPHONES,SO LETS THANK THE GREAT INVENTOR ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.