Alexander Graham Bell
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Where would we all be today without our phones and mobile ones at that? Discover the genius of how Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone, changed our world forever. Follow him on his journey from helping the hearing impaired learn to communicate, to working on a sound transmission system. He established the very successful Bell Telephone Company and reaped great financial rewards. Inventive by nature, he was prolific in his ideas and applications and had many patents granted to him, as he continued to innovate and contribute to our world.
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Louis Braille
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Charles Babbage
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