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Alexander
G Bell
still in the United Kingdom |
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Alexander
Bell was born March 3 I847
in Edinburgh/Scotland/UK (now +44) and grew up in a sound passionated family |
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 about 5 year old Alexander with his mother Eliza |
Alexander Bell's mother Eliza was almost totaly deaf (she could not hear...) she taught his son Alexander the manual english alphabet used by the death and created in him the desire to help deaf people Bell got fascinated by the mystery of human voice |
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 Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds with their 3 sons, Melville James, Alexander and Edward Charles picture taken around I852 collected by Prints and Photographs Division, US Library of Congress. |
already as a II years old teenager he made his first invention, a device to clean wheat |
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October I862 Alexander Bell
goes to London where he lifes with his grandfather, also called Alexander Bell I864 Alexander Bell attends University of Edinburgh I865-66 teaches and experiments voice with vowel pitches in Elgin I866-67 teaches at Somersetshire College in Bath I868 teaches death children about speach at Susanna Hull's school in London I869 Bell attends University College in London. |
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May I7
younger brother Edward Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of I9 I870 May 28 older brother Melville Bell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25 |
 Alexander Bell in I870, aged 23 he emigrates to Branford/Canada |
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having lost two of their three sons
the Bell parents don't want to loose the last one they decide to leave the UK and like many European people of that time they hope find a better future in North America and in the summer of I870 they emigrate, Alexander Bell and his brothers Melvilles widow Carrie Bell go with them they settle in Brantford, Ontario/Canada (now+I 5I0) |
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