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Growing up as a young boy in Scotland, Alexander Graham Bell showed a unique talent
for music. Though he ( 4 ) this path through to a career, Bell changed his mind and
followed in his father's footsteps. His father wás a famous teacher of speech communication.
Bell becanme a teacher himself, first of music, then of speech communication. At the
same time, Bell pursyed his other love, inventing, by-experimenting with the mechanics of
Speeth using both Triends and his dog as súbjects. In 1870, when he was 23 years old, Bel
and his family sailed from Scotland to Canada to escape the tuberculosis epidemic* that had
already killed Bell's two brothers. While his parents remained in Canada, Bell moved to the
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United States to teach. He continued to experiment with his jnterest, electricity. He dreamed
of being able to transmit speech, so that people' around the world could
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word. Bell and his assistant, Tom Watson, achieved their first success in 1875. After many
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experiments, they were able to invent the telephone.
On March 7, 1876, Bell and Watson succeeded in( 6 )inseparate rooms across a small
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hallway. Later that year, Bell made the first Iong-distance telephone call, overa distance of 16
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ilometers, to his father while on vacation in Canada. Thanks to his invention, we can nov
communicate and share information with people all over the world.
