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Cloze Exercise - Alexander Graham Bell

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Read the facts below about Alexander Graham Bell and fill in the missing words from the word bank.

1. Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist , engineer and inventor.

2. He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh , Scotland.

3. He is best known for the invention of the first practical telephone .

4. Bell became interested in the science of sound because both his mother and his
wife were deaf .

5. He began his career as a teacher of deaf children and taught at the Boston School for Deaf
Mutes. It was here he met his future wife Mabel Hubbard. They married and had three children.

6. He hired someone to help him with his experiments. His name was Thomas Watson and
the two of them together invented the telephone.

7. Thomas Watson was a skilled electrician .

8. The first successful two-way telephone call was made on 10 March, 1876 when Bell spoke
into his device. He said, ''Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.''

9. There were many other scientists with similar ideas, so Bell had to hurry to the patent office
so he would be known for inventing the telephone.

10. The Bell Telephone Company was formed in 1877 by Alexander and his investors.

11. Bell had to fight many lawsuit as other inventors were claiming that they had invented the
telephone first, but he always won.

12. Alexander Graham Bell died in Nova Scotia in Canada on August 2, 1922.