See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Thomas Edison Story.
Life Lesson #84 – Develop a Love of Learning.
A famous person once said, “An inventor is someone who looks upon the world and is not content with things the way they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees. He wants to help the world with his ideas!” The person who said those words was a great inventor himself, Alexander Graham Bell.
When Aleck was only 12 years old, he and his friend were given the job of de-husking wheat to be used in a mill that made flour for baking. That was a LOT of work so he and his friend invented a machine using rotating paddles and nail brushes to do the work for them. It worked! And it was used for many years, thereafter. The list of his inventions goes on and on. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell is most remembered for his invention of the telephone.
But you know, he saw the time he spent developing the telephone as an interruption to those things he really wanted to invent, and he refused to have a telephone in his study! His mother and his wife were both deaf, so he spent a great deal of time studying about how sound travels. In his lifetime, he had MANY inventions that dealt with sound and communication.
Alexander Graham Bell developed a love of learning that lasted his entire life. But it was as a young child that he first started working on ways to help people and to make the world a better place. It was as a young child that he first became a HERO!
– Jim Lord