... had dyslexia just like I have, and yet he was able to overcome those disabilities to become a great inventor. Having a disability, like being partially deaf, is something that will never go away and it makes life even harder. The fact that he was able to take a disability like being hearing impaired and turn it into a ... in school, it was always a struggle to hear the teacher, but I never wanted to say anything because I was afraid of what people would think of me or tease me. But as I grew up I realized that why should I care what other people think of me, I should just be myself and...

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... , or peep-show machine. Alexander Bell: 1847 1922, American scientist, inventor of the telephone. Bell invented the photophone, which transmitted speech by light rays; the audiometer, another invention for the deaf; the induction balance, used to locate metallic objects in the human body; and the flat and the cylindrical wax recorders for phonographs. He investigated the nature and causes of deafness ... the U.s. Under the hands of Sumners and others, it did influence some journalists, ministers, n policymakers. Between 1870 n 1890 it came under increasing attack. In fields like religion...

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