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亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔

湖北省葛洲坝高中 袁芳供稿

中文名：亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔

外文名：Alexander Graham Bell

国籍：美国

出生日期：1847年3月3日

逝世日期：1922年8月2日

职业：学者发明家、企业家

毕业院校：伦敦大学；

爱丁堡皇家高等学校

信仰：基督教

编者注

亚历山大·贝尔是一位美国发明家和企业家。他获得了世界上第一台可用的电话机的专利权（发明者为意大利人安东尼奥·梅乌奇），创建了贝尔电话公司（AT&T公司的前身）。他被世界誉为“电话之父”。

Alexander Graham Bell is an American inventor and Entrepreneur.He was born in Edinburgh,Scotland on March 3rd,1847.亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔是一位美国发明家和企业家。1847年3月3日出生于英国苏格兰的爱丁堡。

His father is an expert in remedying speaking and teaching the deaf.And his grandfather is a Philanthropist,always showing sympathy to the deaf and dumb.And Bell’s mother herself is a deaf and dumb.Growing up in such surroundings,he had strong willing to achieve in such field.贝尔的父亲是一位矫正说话、教授聋人的专家。贝尔的祖父是个慈善家，一直都很同情聋哑的残障者。贝尔的母亲也是一位聋哑人。贝尔就在这种环境下耳濡目染地长大，所以心中一直期望将来在这方面能有所建树。

In 1870,because of poor health,he migrated to Canada.It was not long before his success in teaching the deaf to speak brought him to the attention of a wealthy merchant in Boston who had a deaf daughter,Mabel.Would Mr.Bell please teach Mabel how to speak?Yes,he would.And he did.Then they fell in love.1870年，他由于身体不好移居加拿大。不久之后，他就以成功地教会耳聋者说话而引起波士顿一位富商的注意。这位商人有个耳聋的女儿梅布尔。可否请贝尔先生教梅布尔说话呢?是的，他愿意。而且他去做了，然后他们相爱了。

It was she who inspired him through all the exhausting experiments,and he developed the then remarkable instrument.是梅布尔鼓舞他进行了所有那些使人精疲力竭的实验，使他得以研制出当时很了不起的一种工具。

The first voice to travel over a wire was even a surprise for its inventor.Alexander Graham Bell.He was experimenting in his laboratory late one night,and quite by accident he succeeded in transmitting a message to his assistant in the next room.What Mr.Bell could not know at the time was that that night in 1876 would mark the start of a revolution in communications.通过电线传送的第一个声音，甚至使它的发明人亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔都感到惊讶。一天深夜，贝尔正在实验室里做实验，非常偶然地，他成功地向在隔壁房间里的助手传递了一个口信。……