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Alexander Graham Bell

Casey Crowley, Rikin Shah

Ms. Karen Chase

ENG 341

5 April 2009 Annotated Bibliograph

//Alexander Graham Bell was known as an ingenious inventor at the same time Henirch Ibsen was writing great works. Born in Edinborough, Scotland on March 3, 1847, Bell was known as the inventor of the first telephone. Although he invented the telephone, it would be wrong for one to think that it is all he did. Bell lead an exciting life that included the creation of many other inventions, an interesting family and childhood, his work with the deaf, and the obvious race to be the first to hold the patent of his greatest inventions. Bell also studied the human voice and the sounds that we make and taught deaf mutes how to speak. He died on august 2, 1922 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.// //It is interesting to read about a man like Bell for one can see how the life of an inventor can truly unfold.//

"Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)." __UXL Biographies__. Online ed. Detroit: UXL, 2003. __Discovering Collection__. Gale. COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 13 Apr. 2009 . This website is a very good source it you are looking for an in-depth discussion of the life of Alexander Graham Bell. It is very well organized and it is easy to find the specific information that you want because of the sections and boldfaced headings. It is very lengthy, so if you want something shorter and simpler you should not look here first. It is a great source for someone that wants a lot of good information. It is just a biography that talks about his whole life with a main focus on his life. "Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)." __World of Invention__. Kimberley A. McGrath. Online. ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006. __Discovering__ __Collection__. Gale. COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 13 Apr.2009. .

Although this essay is also another biography, it is not as well organized as the other internet sources. The information flows well and is in chronological order but it was only used to get the other things that Bell invented. so overall it is a good source for broad information as it is shorter and less detailed. It covers everything that goes on in his lifetime but is also good for finding his other inventions.

Foster, Abram. "Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)." __Encyclopedia of World Biography__. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Reasearch, 1998. Discovering Collection. Gale. COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 13 April 2009. . This article is also very lengthy but is also very well organized with boldfaced headers breaking it into sections with specific information that is easy to find. It is a little bit longer than the other sources from the internet and also has the most information. It is also very good with specific dates throughout Bell's life and is a biography that covers the events in his life that are important. Haven, Kendall. __Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor and Visionary__. Washington, DC: Scholastic Inc., 2003.

Haven describes how Bell was more than just an inventor. Bell is described as having the signs of a genius at the young age of eleven. Bell worked with many disabled people and also conducted experiments and worked on numerous new technological devices of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.