William Bell Research Paper

young boy when he started working as a clerk in a telegraph company. He then worked for the

“He had, by a Misfortune common enough to young Fellows, fallen into ill Company; and amongst them, some that mad a frequent practice of Deer-stealing, engag’d him with them more than once in robbing a Park that belong’d to Sir Thomas Lucy of Cherlecot, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that Gentlemen, as he thought, somewhat too severely; and in order to revenge that ill Usage, he made a Ballad[4] up on him…that he was oblig’d to leave his Business and Family on Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.”

odd jobs and eventually made his way to California where he met his future wife,

went to work to support his family. He was hired as a apprentice to a bookseller were he

He did trading with the West Indies. His father died at age fifty, because of mental stress. After his father died, Henry quit school and opened a bookstore.

When he was nine, he was sent to England to study grammar and English. He tried multiple times to get into a governmental assembly in Virginia and finally gets on the Virginia Committee of Correspondence. While kind of lost in his life, he became Baptist and started to become more religious. He realizes that slavery is very detrimental to the US society,

He was apart of politics; he was a congressman in New York and ran for office as a liberal republican in 1872, but died in November 1872. (Editors) In his newspaper he wrote about his views on the movement westward, he saw the land out west as an opportunity for unemployed and young people.

the war he lived with his family in England. He failed to obtain a regular

They first settled in New York City nine years later after he was born in 1849. He attended the public schools until he was old enough to start working at the age of fourteen. He worked at a mercantile house in which he was employed a short time. A few years later they moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana where he started working in printing office and making jewelry.

He was a minuteman for the local militia to help stop the British. He protested against the British. Since he loved to read and write, he wrote poems and stories. Those poems and stories would reach out to people about what the British are doing. Also it would tell what life was life in the war. Since he was telling what the British were doing, the Tories (stayed for the British) might change to patriots and support the Americans.

One would say that his obvious lack of enthusiasm is perhaps a literary device to make the point that his fate was already made. Through many years, he worked and made enough money to buy his freedom. He married and had two daughters. In 1797, he died in London.

On his way to London to meet his mother,

Alexander Bell was an inventor, self-taught student, and teacher. He was an important part of communication technology history. The invention of the telephone made a huge impact on the world.

The importance of Alexander Graham Bell on today’s society is visible, or rather audible, every day and everywhere. First and foremost, Alexander Graham Bell was a prolific teacher of the deaf. This is what he considered to be his true life’s work, but only one of the many important things he did. Through his research of speech and sound, and his creative mind, he would become one of the most influential inventors in modern history. His own definition of an inventor, “A man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world.” suits him well. Every thing that he did had an impact on someone.

with his wife to Mitylene. There he lived for three years until he joined the