Unfortunately, it was around this time that the fatal disease called the white plague, spread through Britain and both phone Alexander's brothers died. 3 Alexander was teaching to a tribe of Mohawk Indians in a small Canadian town called Brantford, when the Boston Board ot Education asked him to come and work in the USA at a new school for deaf mutes Alexander was very happy to move to Boston and continue the work he had started in Britain, 4 However, he was so busy there that he did not have the time to work on his inventions. Then, two years later, he agreed to give private lessons to a young boy whos family allowed him to use their basement as a workshop. This gave Alexander the opportunity to resume his experiments with sound transmitters. He used to spend all his Reading