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What experimental facility did Bell establish in 1880?
The Volta Laboratory using $10,000 from winning France's Volta Prize.
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What caused Bell and his father to try to help the deaf?
Bell's mother was deaf.
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What did Bell refuse to have in his study, because he thought it would distract him?
A telephone
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How did Bell change our lives today?
He invented the first telephone and refined the phonogragh.
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How did the world honor Bell after his death?
The entire telephone system was shut down for one minute in tribute to his life.
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What association did Bell create to teach speech to the deaf?
The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
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Where was Bell from?
Edinburgh, Scotland
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What idea distracted Bell from his idea of the Harmonic Telegraph?
The transmission of human voices over wires(Telephone).
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What unit was named after Bell?
The bel, commonly seen as decibel.
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Who were Bell's first investors?
Thomas Sanders and Gardiner Hubbard, the fathers of two of Bell's students in Boston.
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What telephone company did Bell create in 1877?
The Bell Telephone Company
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What did Bell's father work on?
Visible speech for the deaf
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How many times was Bell's telephone company charged in court? A. 0-100? B. 101-200? C. 201-300? D. 300+?
D. 300+ (He faced about 550 charges)
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What modern day company did Bell organize?
AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
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What infectious disease killed both of Bell's brothers?
Tuberculosis.