True or False? The telephone was Alexander Graham Bell’s first invention. False! Alexander Graham Bell invented a talking machine when he was fifteen years old. Before that he had invented a wheat husker. As a young man, he taught deaf children how to talk at a school in Boston, Massachusetts. He invented a metal detector that was used in several wars to find bullets in wounded men. Later in life, he experimented with small airplanes and special boats called hydrofoils.
True or False? The telephone was Alexander Graham Bell’s first invention. False! Alexander Graham Bell invented a talking machine when he was fifteen years old. Before that he had invented a wheat husker. As a young man, he taught deaf children how to talk at a school in Boston, Massachusetts. He invented a metal detector that was used in several wars to find bullets in wounded men. Later in life, he experimented with small airplanes and special boats called hydrofoils.
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