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Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847.
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He invented a useful tool that took husks off wheat stalks with a brush.
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When he was a boy, Alexander's mother taught him to play the piano. Soon, he decided to teach others how to play.
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Alexander's father helped deaf boys and girls learn how to speak well. Alexander liked watching his dad teach and decided he wanted to teach speech to deaf people too.
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When Alexander Graham Bell was 23, he got very sick. His family left his boyhood home and moved to Canada where they hoped he would get well.
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Bell went to Boston in the United States to teach speech for deaf students like his dad did.
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Alexander enjoyed inventing new things more than anything else. As a teenager, he daydreamed about things he could make.
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One day while shopping for supplies, Bell met Thomas Watson. He was a skillful toolmaker that had helped many inventors before. Bell told Watson about his idea for the telephone.
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Bell and Watson worked for a long time on Bell's plan for the telephone. He got a patent and the first telephone call took place on March 10, 1876.
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Bell invented things until his death in 1922.