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Summary
Take a close-up look at Alexander Graham Bell, an inventor and teacher of the deaf. Interviews with experts and lively writing deliver the accurate reporting you expect from TIME For Kids ® . Historical and contemporary photographs capture the life of this compassionate man and show how his innovative inventions still help us today.
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Horn Book Review
These easy-to-read biographies focus on significant events and professional accomplishments of each person and include a few personal anecdotes. Though the design is distracting, photographs add to the appeal, as does some historical background and trivia. Each book ends with a brief interview with an ""expert,"" e.g., Bill Gates on Alexander Graham Bell and Ron Reagan on his father. Timeline. [Review covers these Time for Kids Biographies titles: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alexander Graham Bell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.] (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
This attractively designed, if routine, biography of Bell combines period photos on each page with a simply phrased account that notes the inventor's lifelong interest in working with deaf people along with his development of the telephone, several other sound-related devices and even an airplane. Side boxes look at the Industrial Revolution, the Centennial Exhibition and similar contemporary topics, and the author closes with both a timeline and a three-question interview with Bill Gates. As this does convey a sense of what the man was like, as well as an overview of his accomplishments and importance, it will be a useful addition to the array of assignment-fodder bios already on the shelf--despite minor errors (no, Bell did not coin the term "greenhouse effect") and the lack of either source citations or resources for further study. (Nonfiction. 8-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Time For Kids: Alexander Graham Bell Chapter One On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell toiled in his lab in Boston, Massachusetts. The lab was actually a few small bedrooms in a boardinghouse. Hanging on one of the walls was a portrait of an owl. It was given to the inventor as a joke because he often worked late into the night. A pale, tall man with sideburns and a bushy mustache, Bell stared at his unusual contraption. He had been working on it for several years. Along the way, his invention had become an instrument of metal, rods, and wires. Bell had experimented with many other machines, but those trials had ended in failure. Sometimes he got discouraged, but he never gave up. Now history was about to be made. To see if the device would work, Bell called into the mouthpiece: "Mr. Watson -- Come here -- I want to see you." Seconds later, his assistant burst through the door. He had heard Bell's voice, even though he was in another room with a hallway in between. The two men switched places. Thomas Watson read from a book. A few of his words came through clearly. Then he said: "Mr. Bell, do you understand what I say?" Alexander Graham Bell heard every word. After years of research, the telephone was finally born. Bell had built a machine that turned words into electric impulses. These impulses could be sent through a wire and heard at the other end. Alexander Graham Bell's incredible invention was just the first step toward the modern telephone -- a device that changed the world. Yet the real story of the telephone began many years before. It began when a young, curious boy tinkered with inventions in his parents' home. He was growing interested in a subject that had fascinated the Bell family for years -- the science of speech. Time For Kids: Alexander Graham Bell . Copyright © by Madeline Editors of TIME For Kids. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone by Time for Kids Magazine Staff All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
