Alexander Graham Bell Life

Alexander Graham Bell 's life was very interesting. Alexander Graham Bell was born in the age where great discoveries weren't rare and many new ideas were invented and accepted. Below is the story of Alexander Graham Bell 's life and the timeline of Alexander Graham Bell.

Early in Alexander Graham Bell 's life

In 1862, when Alexander Graham Bell was only fifteen, Alexander Graham Bell and his brothers began to assist their father when he gave public demonstrations of his Visible Speech method. Alexander Graham Bell also enrolled as a student teacher in a boys school near Edinburgh. Alexander Graham Bell taught music and speech in exchange for other lessons. Alexander Graham Bell was younger than many of his students. After a few years of university study, Alexander Graham Bell became a full-time teacher and also taught Visible Speech to a class of deaf children.

Alexander Graham Bell 's life at age 19

When he was 19, Alexander Graham Bell read about experiments in acoustics being conducted by a German physicist who was using electrically powered tuning forks to make vowel sounds. Alexander Graham Bell began to wonder about the idea of what he called "telegraphing" speech. It was the start of an interest in electricity and sound that would persist for many years and would eventually lead to Alexander Graham Bell 's greatest invention.

Alexander Graham Bell and his invention ideas

A few years after his mind had been sparked by this promising idea of telegraphing sound, Alexander Graham Bell became his father's partner in London. While Alexander Graham Bell worked with his father, he also taught at the University of London, as a specialist in the anatomy of speech. So far, life for Alexander Graham Bell had been simple and almost predictable. However, beginning in 1867, when Alexander Graham Bell was 20, things began to change.

Alexander Graham Bell Life no longer predictable

Alexander Graham Bell was away on a teaching engagement when he received news his younger brother Edward Bell was sick with "consumption," a lung disease we know today as tuberculosis. People knew little about tuberculosis in those days and most blamed it on the cold, damp climate of England and its smoke-filled cities. They had no medicines to treat it and usually just watched in despair as the patient grew weaker and paler, and the cough became deeper and more frequent. Alexander Graham Bell rushed home in time to see his brother, but Edward died shortly after. In Alexander Graham Bell 's diary, he wrote:

"Edward died this morning at ten minutes to four o'clock. He was only eighteen years and 8 months old. He literally fell asleep - he died without consciousness and without pain while he was asleep. So may I die!"