05:27 ◀Tuttoo_Triangle▶ Although he was only 28 years old at the time. Alexander had been working in the fields of speech, anatomy. electricity and telegrapy for over 11 years . in fact, his whole family Alexander's father has also written several books on how to speak correctly as well as creating a form of sign language called visible speech .
05:29 ◀Tuttoo_Triangle▶ The young professor was working in his workshop in a narrow street in Boston, not far from Scollay Square. It was a very hot afternoon in June, but the man did not notice. He was totally absorbed in his strange machine which he had been working on for about three years. Suddenly he heard an almost inaudible sound the first sound ever transmitted through a wire. The machine was the very first telephone and the young man was Alexander Graham Bell.
05:34 ◀Tuttoo_Triangle▶ At the age of 16 Alexander started to help teach young deaf mutes, children who could not hear or speak. He used his father's system of visible speech and achieved amazing results. A few years later. while working in London, Alexander met two men who would play an important role in his life.
05:38 ◀Tuttoo_Triangle▶ Unfortunately, it was around this time that the fatal disease called the white plague, spread through Britain and both Alexander's brothers died. Alexander was teaching to a tribe of Mohawk Indians in a small Canadian town called Brantford, when the Boston Board of Education asked him to come and work in the USA at a new school for deaf mutes.