U5W1 Alexander Graham Bell - Key Details

Select two key details from paragraph 1.

• Alexander Bell was born in 1847 in Scotland and he invented the telephone.

• He learned how sound travels as vibrations.

• Telephones connected people to one another.

• His mother was deaf. This made Bell want to learn about sound and find new ways to communicate.

Select the key details from paragraph 2.

• His wife was aslo deaf.

• Bell wored with deaf students and studied sound and the human voice.

• He kept learning about how sound works.

• His mother was deaf.

Select the key details from paragraph 3.

• The messages werre then written down and delivered by hand.

• People could send telegraph.

• At the time, the people communicated by telepgrah. Bell dreamed of a tiem when people would talk with "electricity."

• His wife was also deaf.

Select the key details from paragraph 4.

• These were the famous word of the first phone call every made.

• Bell experimented with electric wires. He finally succeeded in making the first person-to-person call on March 10, 1876.

• Bell achieved his goal.

• Bell began to experiment with electric wires.

Select the key details from paragraph 5.

• These were the famous words "It talks!" he cried out..

• The leader of Brazil, Emperor Pedro II was at the fair.

• Bell introduced his "electric speech machine" at the 1876 World's Fair. Peopel were amazed by his work.

• The World's Fair was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Select the key details from paragraph 6.

• Bell's invention was revolutionary.

• The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877.. Three years later, more than 130,000 homes had telephones.

• Bell's invention paved the way for how we communicate.

• The World's Fair was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.