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the young man

was Alexander Graham

Bell

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waste

of time, Alexander

his experiments

with sound

telephone

and

time,

Alexander

. He

continued

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the human ear using

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he was only

,

electricity and

to give up his dream

copied

the design of

even

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fields of speech,

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working in the

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his whole family

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rods

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and

energy

on

for over

11

years

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so

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time

telegraphy

the

study of

speech

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and soon ran

involved

in

on how

to

work with his students

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several books

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had also written

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up when he met

Alexander’s

father

a form of

sign language

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creating

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speak

correctly

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out

expert on

the telegraph

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deaf

John Henry, an

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had

to work

on

called ‘visible

speech’

started to

help teach young

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to survive

financially

working

on

his

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age of 16 Alexander

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he

also continued

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mutes; children

who

could

not

hear

or speak

.

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father’s

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words

were

in London,

1876, the first

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years later, while working

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an important

role in his life

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men who would

play

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phone

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to use their

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the sentence you choose fits

allowed

him

in

whose family

to resume

his

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the opportunity

gave Alexander

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all his