And a few facts about Mr Alexander Graham Bell you may not be familiar with:
- Alexander Bell was born Scotland 1847. At the age of ten he asked his father to give him a middle name (like his brothers). On his 11th birthday he had a birthday ceremony and was given the middle name of Graham (chosen in honour of a family friend called Alexander Graham).
- He was a founding member of the National Geographic Society
- Before inventing the telephone, his career was following his father’s footsteps as a teacher of the deaf
- Ironically, Bell never had a telephone in his study
- Bell died in 1922 and at the end of his funeral service, all the telephones in North America were silenced in remembrance of the great man.
Can you imagine all the telephones being silenced today? Even for a second? Have you ever tried to get your friends off the phone while you are having coffee together?
Unimaginable – you are the one to be silenced rather quickly at mentioning it.
Marti
Don’t I already know it.