Parts of a Book
Inventions
Facts about his life
The Telephone
Interesting Facts
100
What is the special name we have for a book that is about the life of a person?
Biography
100
This invention helped people talk to someone far away.
Telephone
100
In what country was he born?
Scotland
100
Alexander wanted to turn human sounds into electric _______________.
Current
100
When he talked to his deaf grandmother, he would put his ___________ near her forehead.
Mouth
200
Where would you find the Table of Contents?
Front of the book.
200
This invention helped people breathe.
Iron Lung
200
What was his father's first name?
Alexander
200
In his first phone, the electric current traveled through a ___________.
Wire
200
What was his helper's name?
Thomas Watson
300
What do we call the list of words and meanings?
Glossary.
300
He liked to make flying machines called _____________.
Kites or Gliders
300
What did he teach?
Speech
300
The transmitter would turn the ____________ into an electric current.
Sound
300
The first words spoken on a telephone were, "Mr. Watson, come ___________. I want to _________ you.
Here See
400
Is this book a fiction or a nonfiction book?
Nonfiction.
400
He invented a hydrofoil _____________.
Boat
400
What was special about his students?
They were deaf.
400
The receiver would turn the electric current back into __________________.
Sound
400
When Alexander died, as a tribute, all phone service stopped for ____________ minute.
1
500
Name 2 places you can find the title and author of the book.
Cover and Title Page.
500
His new kind of phone sent words on a beam of ____________.
Light
500
In 1871, he moved from Scotland to the ________________.
United States
500
Alexander called his invention an electric _____________ machine.
Speech
500
A centennial celebrates how many years?
100.
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