Alexander+Graham+Bell's+Inventions

This person did not answer the question in the draft! The answer is 3. :)

1. My topic is Alexander Graham Bell's inventions.

2. **What I already know Who?** Alexander Graham Bell
 * What?** His inventions
 * Where?** I don't know
 * When?** During the Industrial Revolution
 * Why?** He did his inventions so that he could make them more easy or accesible
 * How?** I'm not completely sure

3. **What I want to know (research questions): Who?** Who helped him with his inventions?
 * What?** What were some of Bell's huge inventions?
 * Where?** Where did all of his inventions happen?
 * When?** When did Bell start thinking of inventing things?
 * Why?** Why did Bell start inventing things?
 * How?** How did his inventions affect the way of living life?
 * How did this impact the Industrial Revolution, or how did the Industrial Revolution affect this?** Some of his inventions affected the Industrial Revolution because it made communication and the way to life much easier.

4. **My research strategy: Who?** I'll ask Ms. Horn and Ms. Brem for help in locating information. I could ask Ms. Brolan or Mr. D. I could as the public librarian.
 * What?** Expert websites, databases, encyclopedias, books, textbook.
 * Where?** The CTMS and public library.

Alexander Graham Bell's Inventions

Alexander Graham Bell influenced the Industrial Revolution by his inventions and experiments which helped communication and technology.

Alexander had a passion for inventing; he loved it and loved how it always helped people do things faster or more efficient. Alexander had such a great talent for it that he could invent or help discover literally anything if it was everyday things or future things stuff that wouldn't even benefit himself. He would always look for ways to help other people or to help them stop bad things from their life’s first.

He would soon start all his inventing in the communications section. He would find ways to communicate across the country faster than just mail. He would look into something that would let him talk to someone verbally. He thought of something called the telephone; a device that would let you talk to someone else through a device by talking into it. He would be able to talk to anyone in the country three times as fast as mailing someone. He soon became a huge hit after making this invention but he had to realize some people didn’t know how to do this. He soon gave people a much more simple way to communicate. He came up with an invention called a photophone. This gave people a way to communicate by seeing things coming from a red laser light to talk with. “ Bell regarded the photophone as "the greatest invention I have ever made; greater than the telephone." Bell's invention reveals the principle upon which today's laser and fiber optic communication systems are founded, though it would take the development of several modern technologies to realize it fully”(Graham Family Papers). Alexander though was not satisfied with just two inventions he always looked for different things to help people with their everyday lives. He would help people by inventing things that would prevent bad things from happening even though one in particular happened from personal experience. After his son died he began researching and experimenting with medical equipment called the metal vacuum jacket. It would help people with respiratory problems cure and become better. “This apparatus was a forerunner of the iron lung used in the 1950s to aid polio victims” (Graham Family Papers). In his life he had many of great and very life changing experiments but also some minor ones as well. In his lifetime he had 3 major inventions: the telephone, the photophone, and the metal vacuum jacket. One minor inventions included the Audiometer: “a device that could detect minor hearing problems and conducting experiments with what today is called energy recycling and alternative fuels” (Graham Family Papers). All his inventions had one thing in common; none of the inventions were made just for his benefit he made it for others. In his life he had 3 MAIN INVENTIONS.