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World Service,12 Oct 1988,8 mins

Alexander Graham Bell

They Made Our World

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'His main in life was to help deaf people speak'. A look at how Scottish-born American Alexander Graham Bell, a teacher of deaf children, came to invent the telephone through his experiments in telegraphy.

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