An interview with Alexander Graham Bell

Q: When were you born?
A: On the 3rd of March 1847
Q: Where In Scotland Were You Born?
A: Edinburgh
Q: Who were your parents?
A:My parents were Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell.
Q: What was your gift for your 11th birthday?
A: My father acquised and allowed me to adopt the middle name Graham.
Q: At the age of 12 you created you first invention. What was it?
A: It was a homemade device that combined rotating paddles with a set of nail brushes.
Q: What did your mother encourage you to do?
A: She encouraged me to get involved with talent arts like poetry, music. I mastered the piano by myself.
Q: How affected were you by your mothers deafness?
A: I was deeply affected and I learned sign language to communicate with my mother.
Q: You didn't attend school in your early years. How were you taught?
A: Instead of going to school my father taught me at home.
Q: You then joined high school. Where were you enrolled and when did you leave?
A: I was enrolled at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. I left school at the age of 15. I had an undistinguished school record marked by absenteenism and lackluster grades.
Q: What were your favourite subjects in School?
A: My favouruites were the Science subjects. Biology was my favourite out of them. My other subjects were treated indifferently due to my demanding father.
Q: What did you do after you left school?
A: I went to live with my grandfather Alexander Bell in London.
Q: During The year you lived with your Grandfather what did you do?
A: I actually developed a love for learning during that time. I spent many hours studying. My Grandfather took great efforts for my to speak clearly so that I could become a Teacher.
Q: You had a job at the age of 16. What was it?
A: When I was 16 I was a pupil-teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Acadmey in Elgin. I was enrolled as a pupil for Latin and Greek.
Q: Did you take your education any further?
A: I atteneded the University of Edinburgh. I then later graduated from the University of Toronto.
Q:What happened in 1865?
A: I moved to London and I returned to Weston House. I experimented with electricity to convey sound. However through fall and winter I fell ill due to exhaustion.
Q: You moved away from the UK in 1873. Was your life changed?
A: We moved to Canada. We landed in Quebec and took a train to Montreal and then Paris, Ontario and stayed with a friend Reverend Thomas Henderson.
Q: What did you do in Canada?
A: I set up my own workshop and continued to work with electricity and Sound. I designed a piano by means of electricity which could transmit it's music from distance.
Q: So when did you create the telephone?
A: I created it in 1877 and by 1886 over 150,000 telephones were sold.
Q: Where and When did you die?
A: 2nd of August 1922 on my private estate in Nova Scotia.