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Alexander Graham Bell invented not only the telephone, but also early versions of the phonograph, the metal detector, airplanes, and hydrofoil boats. This Scottish immigrant was also a pioneering speech teacher and a champion of educating those with hearing impairments, work he felt was his most important contribution to society. Bell worked with famous Americans such as Helen Keller and aviators Glenn Curtiss and Samuel P. Langley, and his inventions competed directly with those of Thomas Edison and the Wright Brothers.
This unique biography includes a time line, a list of online resources, and 21 engaging hands-on activities to better appreciate Bells remarkable accomplishments. Kids will:
Construct a Pie Tin Telegraph and a Pizza Box Phonograph
See and feel sound by building simple devices
Communicate using American Sign Language
Send secret messages using Morse code
Investigate the properties of ailerons on a paper airplane
Build and fly a tetrahedral kite
And more!
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Copyright 2018 by Mary Kay Carson
All rights reserved
Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-0-912777-13-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Carson, Mary Kay, author.
Title: Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities / Mary Kay Carson.
Description: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2018] | Audience: Ages 9+. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017027641| ISBN 9780912777139 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780912777153 (epub) | ISBN 9780912777160 (kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922Juvenile literature. | InventorsUnited StatesBiographyJuvenile literature. | TelephoneUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. | DeafMeans of communicationJuvenile literature.
Classification: LCC TK6143.B4 C3695 2018 | DDC 621.385092 [B]dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027641
Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk
Cover images: FRONT: Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, Library of Congress, LC-G9-Z1-14931-A; AEAs Silver Dart airplane, Library of Congress, LC-G9-Z1-130,728-A; Bell and his assistants flying a giant ring kite, Library of Congress, LC-G9-Z1-116,451-A; Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, New England Historic Genealogical Society; Bells HD-4 hydrofoil, Wikimedia Commons; model of the first telephone, Wikimedia Commons. BACK: Bells liquid transmitter telephone, Wikimedia Commons; sign language and tetrahedral kite illustrations, Lindsey Cleworth Schauer.
Illustrations: Lindsey Cleworth Schauer
Parts of this work were originally published as Alexander Graham Bell: Giving Voice to the World (New York: Sterling Publishing, 2007).
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1847 |
| Alexander Bell is born on March 3 |
1858 |
| Alexander adopts the middle name Graham |
1862 |
| Young Alexander arrives in London to spend a year with Grandfather Bell |
1863 |
| Alexander starts his first teaching job |
1864 |
| Alexanders father develops Visible Speech |
| Alexander studies at the University of Edinburgh | |
1865 |
| Grandfather Bell dies at the age of 75 |
1865-67 |
| Alexander teaches and experiments with sound |
1867 |
| Younger brother Edward dies of tuberculosis at age 19 |
| Alexanders father publishes Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics | |
1868 |
| Alexander begins teaching deaf students in London and studies at University College |
1870 |
| Older brother Melville dies of tuberculosis at age 25 |
| Alexander emigrates with his parents to Ontario, Canada | |
1871 |
| Alexander moves to Boston |
1872 |
| Bell opens his School of Vocal Physiology |
1873 |
| Bell becomes a professor at Boston University |
1873-74 |
| Bell works on the harmonic telegraph |
1874 |
| Bell has the idea for a speaking telegraph |
1875 |
| Bell works on the harmonic telegraph with Thomas Watson |
| Bell begins building and testing a speaking telegraph, the telephone | |
1876 |
| Bell files his telephone patent on February 14 |
| Bell hears Watsons voice over the telephone on March 10 | |
| Bell demonstrates the telephone at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia | |
1877 |
| Bell Telephone Company formed on July 9 |
| Bell marries Mabel Hubbard on July 11 | |
1878 |
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