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A Scottish-born inventor and educator by the name of Alexander Graham Bell is well known for his invention of the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell introduced flight as well. Bell summed up his approach to life and to inventing by saying “ Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, and explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought.” Because of this way of thinking, Bell came up with inventions that we would not be able to live without today. “ The telegraph had been invented before Bell’s time. Signals, music, and even voice like sounds had been transmitted electronically by wire.” Though, the human voice had not been transmitted through wire, Bell was the first to succeed at