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How Did Alexander Graham Bell Make A Life Worth Learning About
Imagine life with no telephones. No way to connect to faraway relatives or friends, except old letters, and that’s all. Without Alexander Graham Bell, telephones may never have happened. No one could just pull out a phone, but had to write letters that took days, even weeks to send. This made communication from far distances extremely difficult. Bell changed our world, and he lived an interesting life worth learning about.
Alexander Graham Bell lived a strange childhood compared to many modern day childhoods. Alexander was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His family consisted of 4 other members. His father, Alexander M. Bell, his mother, Eliza Bell and his siblings, Melville and Edward. When he was eleven, he changed his name

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