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Alexander Graham Bell Museum Baddeck, Nova Scotia On our way to Cape Breton, we stopped off in Baddeck to see the Graham Bell Museum. The Bell Family How often do you hear that they found that something worked while taking medication for something else. Quite a bit. Alexander Graham Bell is known for inventing the telephone, named from the Greek language meaning "far speaking". I can't help but think that if he hadn't been so interested in helping deaf people, would have he invented the telephone? After all I'm sure what he learned about the ear had an impact on what he discovered. single and double pole magneto telephone At the age of 21, Graham used his father’s invention to teach the deaf to speak at a school he taught in London. Word of his achievements spread around the world. Multiple Telegraph Transmitters & receivers He was a very interesting man. In 1867 his brother died of tuberculosis. Then his other brother came do...