Alexander graham bell biography facts worksheets

Alexander Graham Bell was an American scientist, inventor and engineer. You may know him as the inventor of the telephone, but he did much more than that.

He also refined the phonograph, created the metal detector and early forms of the hydrofoil and other machines.

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He also established a school for the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts and was a professor of speech and vocal physiology at Boston University.

This is where he taught and experimented with telegraph messages and devices to help the deaf learn to speak. This is what sparked the idea for his most famous invention: the practical telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell Biography:

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847,  in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Alexander graham bell biography facts worksheets for kids

He emigrated to Canada, then to the United States. He is known for creating the first practical telephone and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell also refined the phonograph in 1886. In Oct