Alex Graham Bell

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Alex Graham Bell

• Power point by
• David Bird
• Domhnall Anndra MacCormick

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Alex Graham Bell.

• He was born on March the 3rd, 1847 in Edinburgh,
  Scotland. He died on in 1922 August the 2nd
• At the age of 5, he didnt have his middle name
  Graham until his 11th birthday his dad gave him
  the name Graham.
• Bell became an excellent pianist at a young age.

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Philip Reis

• When Alexander was a young man at university in
  Edinburgh.
• In a laboratory there was a piece of equipment
  which had been made by a German teacher named
  Philip Reis. It consisted of two boxes that were
  connected by a wire fed from a battery, it would
  transfer sound.
• Reis called it a telephone but no one took him
  seriously.

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Alex Graham Bell

• He and his assistant Thomas Watson began to work
  on the telephone in 1817
• On 4th of march 1876 Bell patented the telephone
  and three days after he sent his first spoken
  message.

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• Created by,
• David Bird
• Domhnall Anndra MacCormick
• Iochdar School.
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