The Saturdays chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8

Final wrap up of The Saturdays.

Topics of study for chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8.

~algae
~water pollution
~carbon monoxide
~Shakespeare's plays
~bird songs
~review discussion of WWII

We finally completed our study.  We learned about a variety of topics in this lit study. 

Now, we are heading around the world for a more in depth look at different countries and regions.  We are making a stop on each continent to explore the unknown.

Alexander Graham Bell

Our literary study of Homer Price has lead us to Alexander Graham Bell.  He was a great inventor and a very special person.  He worked countless hours with deaf people, and he invented  a language for them called Visible Speech. He married Mabel Hubbard.  She was deaf and a former student of his.

Alexander Graham Bell is most famous for inventing the telephone but he considered the telephone to be an intrusion on his "Real work as a scientist" and did not even have one in his study.

Bell was awarded a patent for the telephone in 1876.  Here is a notebook Bell jotted down his ideas regarding the telephone. 

Alexander's notebook in 1876.

A few other inventions by Alexander Graham Bell.
*the metal detector
*hydrofoils
*aeronautics-tetrahedral box kites

In memory of a great inventor.
Alexander Graham Bell
Born: March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Died: August 2, 1922 (75) in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada