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Alexander Graham Bell

was the son, and grandson of speech experts, and with his mother being deaf, it's no surprise that he would devote his life to study and improve the methods with which we communicate to one another. not content with having invented the telegraph, and telephone, Bell was also granted sixteen other patents, plus twelve more shared with collaborators. These patents included plans for aeroplanes, hydroplanes, visual transmission devices (Photophone), and the selenium cell. He also founded the famous National Geographic Society in 1888. When he died in Nova Scotia in 1922, all phone services across the US were interrupted for one minute of silence, to respect and honor a man who had changed the world we live in forever.

Alexander Graham Bell : The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
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