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Detailed explanation-1: -His family was known for teaching people how to speak English clearly (elocution). Both his grandfather, Alexander Bell, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, taught elocution. His father wrote often about this and is most known for his invention and writings of Visible Speech.

Detailed explanation-2: -First experiments with sound. His father encouraged Bell’s interest in speech and, in 1863, took his sons to see a unique automaton developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone based on the earlier work of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen. The rudimentary “mechanical man” simulated a human voice.

Detailed explanation-3: -In April 1870, Bell moved to Boston to train teachers to teach deaf students how to speak at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. Successful, he repeated the program for teachers at two other schools for the deaf. In October 1872, Bell opened his own school in Boston and worked as a private tutor for deaf students.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe.