"Did you know that Bell's amazing invention--the telephone--stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a telephone in his study? Bell's story will fascinate young readers interested in the early history of modern technology!"--

We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts - or...

The life and career of Alexander Graham Bell, the man credited with inventing the telephone.

A biography of the man known for his interest in teaching the deaf and for his invention of the telephone.

Examines the life and accomplishments of the speech teacher whose study of sound and the human voice led to his invention of the telephone.

A biography of the prolific inventor best known for his work with the deaf and his invention of the telephone.