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Alexander Graham Bell is the man who invented the first working telehpne. He was born in Edinburgh, Scottland in 1847. Alexander and his family were not strangers to the world of communication. Alexander ,his father and grandfather all worked on speech pronounciation, grammer and style, in addition to different types of communication techniques to try to communicate with his deaf mother. Alexander is known the best for his invention of the telephone, he had many other experiments and inventions. Alexander worked closely with botanical science and the arts. In 1870, when Alexander was in a frail state due to a severe illness that had killed several members of his family, he moved to Ontario, Canada. While in Ontario he studied the human voice and continued in his work to help deaf people communicate. Alexander traveled to Boston to the Boston School for mutes. While he was in Boston he decided to start up a school called the Vocal Physiology and Merchants of Speech. One of Alexander's most famous students was named Helen Keller. It was while he was working and studing in Boston that he started working on the "harmonis telegraph" - a message that could be sent through a wire with differnet pitches. Alexander in 1875, workd with Thomas A. Watson on the acousatic telegraphy. On Jun 2nd 1875, Alexander and Thomas transmitted voice sounds through a telephone. The speech was not clear or distinct, but they were able to hear sound over the telephone. This was the beginning of Alexander's telephone. The telephone has changed our world in the way that we communicate with one another. Today, we would not know what to do if we did not have a telephone to be able to call our family or friends. We diffinitely would not know how to communicate if we didn't have this form of technology.