Alexander Graham Bell

by Michael Pollard

The story of Alexander Graham Bell is about his invention, the telephone, and its effect on people's lives. As a person who had dedicated his life to helping the deaf, Bell once heard a voice vibration coming through a piece of stretched wire. His experiments and invention of the telephone changed the way people communicate. Later Bell produced an astounding number of inventions, including the first hydrofoil, an air conditioning system, the first iron lung, and an early version of a fax machine.

Genres: History

64 pages, Hardcover

First published August 24, 2000

Reviews

[Beşir Demir · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was fine to learn about what actually happened when the phone was invented

[Barbara Ab · Rating 4 out of 5]

First these two series of little books (about 64 pages) - Scientist who have changed the world and People who have helped the world – are incredible well done. They are small but they provide a complete account of each person life with an outstanding historical background and future developments of his discoveries.. They are also full of pictures with full explanations and outlined quotes.
The story of the invention of the telephone –and its effect on our lives.
“I am like a man in a fog who is sure of his latitude and longitude. I know that I am close to the land for which I am bound and when the fog lifts I shall see it right before me”
“The more fame a man gets for an invention, the more does he become a target for the world to shoot at”
“Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take away from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing”.
“Can Imagination picture what the future of this invention is to be!... We may talk by light to any visible distance without any conducting wire. In warfare the electric communications of an army tapped… In general science, discoveries will be made by the Photophone that are undreamed of just no… The twinkling stars may yet be recognized by characteristic sounds, and storms and sunspots be detected in the sun”

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok book, interesting life.