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\nby Deborah Eaton  \nCopyright ◎by Harcourt Brace &Company  \nll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording.or any information storage and retrieval system,withoutpermission in writing from the publisher.  \nRequests for permission to makes copies of any part of the work should be mailed:Permissions DepartmentHarcourt Brace &Company,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,FL 32887-6777  \nHARCOURT BRACE and Quill Design is a registered trademark of Harcourt Brace &Company.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nISBN 0-15-313920-X  \n# Ordering Options\n\nISBN 0-15-314004-6(Grade 4 Collection)ISBN 0-15-314129-8(package of 5)  \nOn a winter day in 1847,a baby boy was born inEdinburgh,Scotland.His mother held him close.She watched him kick his little legs.She touchedhis red face.But she couldn't hear him crying.Themother was almost completely deaf.  \nHer name was Eliza Bell.And the baby was herson,Alexander.  \nAs little Aleck grew,he learned how to speakwith his mother.He would put his mouth close to herforehead.Then he would speak very slowly andcarefully.  \nAleck's father and grandfather were both speechteachers.Aleck learned everything he could abouthow the voice makes sounds and how the ear hears.By the time he was 21,he was teaching speech,too.Like his mother,all of Aleck's students could not hearwell.  \n2  \nBell moved to Canada,then to Boston.Hisinterest in education for the deaf continued.Hetaught speaking and lip-reading at a school for thedeaf.  \nLater,he opened his own school.There hetrained teachers to help deaf people speak.  \nAt this time,there was a lot of discriminationagainst deaf people.Many deaf children were put intoinstitutions.They weren't taught how to  \ncommunicate.Bell felt this was terrible.He workedhard all his life to help deaf people connect withothers.No matter how famous he got,he alwayslisted his job this way:“teacher of the deaf.”  \nWhen Bell was twenty-five,he met a nice youngwoman.Her name was Mabel Hubbard.Mabel,too,was deaf.Her father had hired Bell to help her learnto speak clearly.  \nBell wanted to marry Mabel.But how could he?He was very poor.And there was another problem.Mabel's father was unhappy because Alexander wasspending all his free time working on a foolishinvention.It was called a telephone.  \nBell's first love was teaching.But he had anotherlove,too—inventing.  \nWhen Alexander was a child,he invented amachine that took the husks off wheat.He and hisbrother also made a simple“speaking machine.”  \nBell was still inventing.He rented an extra roomfor $3 per week.He spent every night there,working.  \nA man named Tom Watson helped Bell.Watsonknew a lot about electricity and engineering.He builtthe models they used to try out Bell's inventions.  \nBell's first idea was to make a telegraph wire thatwould carry many messages at once.It would makecommunication a lot quicker.The telegraph idea wassoon orphaned,however.Bell abandoned it when hehad a new idea—a bigger idea.  \nWhat if we could send our voices along a wire?What if we could talk long-distance?People could stayin touch with friends and relatives.They could gethelp quickly from doctors and fire fighters.Theycould make business deals without messengers andletters.  \n5  \nSoon Bell was working furiously on his dream ofa telephone.He spent every dime he had on  \nequipment.And he spent every spare minute in hisworkroom.  \nPeople were worried about his health.They triedto get him to give up either teaching or inventing.Butboth jobs were too important to him.  \nBell was a real night owl.He often worked on hisinventions until three or four o'clock in the morning.He loved the silence of late night.He even stoppedhis clock so its ticking wouldn't bother him.","cbCaihn1mjXqVpTO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihn1mjXqVpTO","pdf",1595960,"English","# Ordering Options\n## Early life and deafness\n## 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