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| I was born on March 3, 1847 in Scotland | My whole life I was facinated by sound. I didn't care much for school and only stayed there a few years |
| I liked to play the piano when I was young. I never needed to read music. As soon as I heard a tune I could play it right back. I was sure I would grow up to be a musician. | One day I was goofing off with a friend of mine at his dad's farm. He became irritated with us and told us to make ourselves useful and try to find a way to quickly removed the husks from the kernals of wheat. So at age 14 I invented the Wheat Husker by altering a machine that we found in the barn. |
| In 1863 I became a teacher. I taught music and speech. I also taught the deaf. I was always VERY interested in the human voice and how it traveled through space. | In 1876 my telephone patent was granted. A patent is a legal paper that gives me, alone, the right to produce my invention. I won a Gold Metal at the U.S. Centennial Celebration! |
| I was married to a lady named Mabel, who was deaf, and also had two daughters. I also had a son but he died only a few hours after birth. | I spent a good portion of my time working on my telelphone but I also invented other things like the metal detector. This helped doctors in several wars to find bullets that had become lodged in soldiers. I also invented something called a metal breathing jacket which helped people who were too weak to breath to breath easier. |
| In 1882 I became a U.S. Citizen. Several years later I became the president of the Nationals Geographic Society. Before I became the president the magazine wasn't doing very well. I encouraged better and more picutures to be put in the magazine and it began to sell much better. The National Geographic Magazine is still in print today. | In 1919, one of my inventions, a hydrofoil (a kind of boat), set a world record of 71 mph! Holy Cow! I also did work on biplanes. Although the Wright brothers were the first to fly a true airplane, a member of my group was the first to fly an airplane in Canada |
| Sadly, on August 2, 1922 I died of a heart attack. I was 74 years old | Even though a lot of my ideas were ahead of their time they lived on to help shape the modern world. |
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