Nicholas+Y.+-+I+am+Alexander+Graham+Bell

My "I am" person is Alexander Graham Bell. Before I started this project, I knew that he had invented the telephone with a partner named Watson. I thought that was all that was important; the creator and its invention. But I also found other interesting facts that make your mind think about how you want to shape your future. It was interesting to see how his childhood really shaped his career. He grew up learning about physics and communication through electricity eventually further pushed his dream into becoming the inventor of a device that could send vocal messages through electrical wires. His dream was set to transmitting more than one vocal message at a time, a conversation. His dad was also a physicist and had similar dreams and taught Bell at a very young age, and I think that really influenced him into becoming what he had become, a hero.

If your going to have a dream, you might as well dream big.


 * How did Bell's dreams as a child affect him to becoming such a successful inventor?**

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Primary Sources ** Documents Visual
 * Bell Family Papers - All letters of the Bell family. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/magbellFolder1.html
 * First telephone- http://www.twu-local32.ca/pics/First%20telephone.gif
 * The Company Shares- http://www.telcomhistory.org/vm/Images/main/histories/AT&T.jpg

Quotes >> >> "America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men." >> >> "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." >> >> "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." >> >> "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." >> >> "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself." >> >> "Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids." >> >> "Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open." >> >> "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion." >> >> "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation -." >> >> "The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world." >> >> "What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." >> >> "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
 * "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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 * Several quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
 * "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
 * http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexander_graham_bell.html