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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:I'm going to tell you something about my life.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:My name is Alexander Graham Bell.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:I was born in the year 1847, in Edinburgh.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:To understand where I ended up, you'll need to understand where I started from.

So the story I will tell you begins when I was just a boy.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:'By the time I was 10 years old, my mother was almost deaf.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:'She liked to listen to me playing the piano, although I'm not sure exactly what she heard.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:'She would sit beside me, with her hearing tube pressed to the piano, and seemed to like it, even though I didn't really play that well.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:'Because of my mother, I was interested from an early age in how sound works.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL:'I spent ages peering inside the piano watching how, when I pressed a key, a little hammer hit some strings, making