Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847, Bell came from a family where communication was more than just talking—it was a science. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a speech therapist who developed “Visible Speech,†a phonetic system to help deaf people communicate. His grandfather? Also a speech expert. And then there was his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound.
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