Alexander Graham Bell

Hello! My name is Alexander Graham Bell, but my family called me Aleck. I was born in a beautiful city called Edinburgh, in Scotland, on March 3rd, 1847. My mother couldn't hear very well, and that made me very curious about sound. I loved figuring out how things worked and spent my childhood inventing things and exploring how voices travel through the air.

When I grew up, I became a teacher for students who were deaf, just like my mother. I wanted to find new ways to help them communicate. In 1872, I moved to a busy city in America called Boston. I spent my days teaching and my nights working in my workshop, trying to create a machine that could send a person's voice through a wire. I dreamed of a 'talking telegraph'!

I had a wonderful assistant named Thomas Watson who helped me build my inventions. We worked for a long, long time. Then, on one very exciting day, March 10th, 1876, it finally happened! I accidentally spilled some battery acid and shouted into my machine, 'Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you!' And guess what? Mr. Watson, who was in another room, heard my voice coming through his receiver! We had done it! We had invented the telephone.

Even after inventing the telephone, my mind was always buzzing with new ideas. I was curious about everything! I worked on machines that could fly, ways to find icebergs at sea, and even helped start a famous magazine called National Geographic. I believed that we should always look around us and find new problems to solve.

I lived a long and happy life filled with discovery. I lived to be 75 years old. Today, the world is connected in ways I could only have dreamed of, all starting with that first telephone call. I hope my story reminds you to always stay curious and use your ideas to help others.