Where was alexander graham bell born

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor and teacher of the deaf, is best known for perfecting the telephone to transmit, or send, vocal messages using electricity. The telephone began a new age in communications technology. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was an expert on the mechanics of the voice and on elocution the art of public speaking.

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His grandfather, Alexander Bell, was an elocution professor. Bell's mother, Eliza, was hard of hearing but became an accomplished pianist as well as a painter , and Bell took an interest in music. Eliza taught Alexander, who was the middle of three brothers, until he was ten years old. When he was a youth he took a challenge from a mill operator and created a machine that removed the husks from grain.

He would later call it his first invention. He taught the deaf to talk by adopting his father's system of visible speech illustrations of speaking positions of the lips and tongue. In London he studied Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz's — experiments with tuning forks and magnets to produce complex sounds.

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In Bell made scientific studies of the resonance vibration of the mouth while speaking. Both of Bell's brothers had died of tuberculosis a fatal disease that attacks the lungs. In his parents, in search of a healthier climate, convinced him to move with them to Brantford, Ontario, Canada. In he went to Boston, Massachusetts, to teach at Sarah Fuller's School for the Deaf, the first such school in the world.

He also tutored private students, including Helen Keller —