Alexander Graham Bell by Laurie Rozakis

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Book: Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Laurie Rozakis
ISBN: 978-0-02-202383-6

Introduction
1. Was Alexander Graham Bell an inventor?
2. What was Alexander’s assistant’s name?

Chapter 1: Growing Up with Science
3. What country was an exciting place in the 1800s?
4. What did Alexander’s father and grandfather teach people?
5. How did Alexander’s father and grandfather help people?
6. What was Alexander’s mother’s name?
7. When was Alexander born?
8. Where was Alexander born?
9. Alexander’s mother had a handicap, what was it?
10. What was the name of Alexander’s high school?
11. Did Alexander graduate from high school?
12. For how many years did he attend high school?
13. Where did Alexander’s father send Bell after high school?
14. What did Alexander’s father invent?
15. What did “visible speech” do?
16. In what year did Alexander’s family build a speaking machine?
17. What caused Alexander to start experimenting in sending sound by using electricity?
18. When did Alexander’s family move to Canada?
19. How long after Alexander moved to Canada, did he move to Boston?
20. What type of job did Alexander do in Boston?
21. In what year did Alexander become a professor at Boston University?

Chapter 2: First Experiments
22. Alexander hired an electrical engineer, what is his name?
23. Who was Alexander working “neck-and-neck” against?
24. Who discovered that a magnet could generate, or make, electricity?
25. Who invented the generator, a machine that makes electricity?

Chapter 3: “Mr. Watson, Come Here!”
26. Who was the first director of the Smithsonian Institution?
27. Where does the word telephone come from?
28. What does “tele” mean?
29. What does “phone” mean?
30. What is a telephone?
31. How old was Alexander when he invented the telephone?
32. In what year did Bell apply for the patent?
Chapter 4: Bell’s Later Life
33. What was the name of the exposition in Philadelphia that Bell won a prize?
34. What was the name of Bell’s laboratory?
35. What does the audiometer do?
36. What does a graphophone do?

Conclusion
37. In what year did Alexander Graham Bell die?
38. Who made the 1st cell phone call?
39. In what year were cell phones invented?
40. When was the 1st cell phone company started?
41. In what year did cell phones surpass landlines?