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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Bell was born in 1847.He loved his father. As a pupil he helped deaf d eaf people learn to talk. Bell immigrated to Ontario in 1870. In March 1876 Bell sent the first message over a telephone to Thomas A. Watson who helped him in his workshop. In 1877 he set up the Bell Telephone Company. By 1878 Bell had already set up the first telephone exchange and by 1884 long distance connections were being made between Boston, Massachusetts and New York. In 1888 he founded the National Geographic Society. Bell died at his home in Nova Scotia, Canada, in August 2, 1922. Bell is an important person worldwide because he invented the telephone.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Vincent van Gogh was a painter. He was born in 1853. Van Gogh was very poor because he sold only one painting during his life. When he was alive he gave his food to poor people. When he was a child he had a mental illness. His brother b rother helped him get well .In 1880 when he was 27 years old he decided to become an artist. In 1886 he went to Paris P aris and met other Impressionist painters. When he went to Paris he created over 800 paintings and 2,000 drawings. In 1888 he left Paris P aris and spent the last two years of his life in Southern France. Van Gogh died in 1890. He was a famous painter and he influenced other painters p ainters too. One of his paintings was sold for over 800 million dollars. Pictures of Van Gogh’s paintings
THOMAS A. EDISON
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Thomas A. Edison was born in 1847. He was a mysterious child. He went to school for three months in his whole life When he was 16 he worked wo rked in a telegraph office. After that he went to New N ew York with 1$ in his pocket. He fixed and improved some equipment in a company there and the company paid him $ 40,000. 40,000 . Later he made the first light bulb. After he had made the light bulb, he worked to make a power system. Thomas Edison died in 1931.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
In 1879 Albert Einstein was born in Germany where he lived. Albert was known for forgetting dates and numbers, losing things and had a lot of problems with the English language. When he was 10 years old his father gave him a compass which aroused his interest in science. His first research was written when he was 16 years old. In 1895 he wrote his first scientific paper and in 1905 he discovered the theory of relativity .Later he wrote around 300 scientific papers. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.In 1946 Einstein accepted an honorary degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. In 1952, Albert Einstein died.
JULES VERNE Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828.When he was young his father insisted on him studying the Law but he preferred writing. When his father realized that, he stopped supporting him financially. He was w as forced to make money from writing so he started by writing w riting plays and the words for operas. Today he’s known for his novels. In 1865 Jules J ules Verne wrote the novel “Alice in Wonderland” which takes a place in a fantasy world. In one of his other ot her novels, the character Phileas Fog travels around the world in a balloon just to win a bet. In his novels he predicted things happening in the future. For example, his submarine, Nautilus, in his novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under t he Sea” predicted the first power submarine that was made 25 years later. In 1888 he was w as elected councilor in Amiens. Jules Verne had a great imagination. i magination. Some of Verne’s scientific ideas are now outdated but his view of science in that age is of great g reat value to the modern reader. Jules Verne is a very famous writer because he wrote lots of books which are amazing. Many of his novels became films fil ms and he became very rich. He died in 1905.
WOLFANG WOLF ANG AMADEUS AM ADEUS MOZART
Mozart was born in Leopold in 1756.At the age of four fo ur Mozart became an expert in keyboard playing. By the age of five he was composing short pieces which his father wrote down for him. At the age of eight Mozart published his first two sonatas for the harpsichord. By the age of twenty-five Mozart had become the best keyboard player in Vienna. Some of his most famous pieces include “Eine KleineNac ht Musik” Musik” which means ‘A Little Night Music” and his twelve variations variations on the French tune ‘’Twinkle Little Star’’ called Variations on ‘’Ah vous divairdivair -je Maman’’. Mozart is a very important person worldwide because he composed a lot of famous pieces and he composed music at an early age. By:Maria Papioglou Eleftheria Dampa
WALT DISNEY In December 5, 1901, Walt Disney was born .He was one of five children, four boys bo ys and one girl. In 1918, Walt Disney tried to join the military service. On July 13, 1925, Walt married his employee Lillian Bounds .In 1932 Walt’s production flowers and trees won the Academy Award. In 1937, he released Mill” and the” the” Snowhite and the seven Dwarfs. “The Old Mill” In 1955, the Disneyland Park opened. In 1954 Disney began the television production. When he was younger he often sold drawings to neighbors to make extra money. Later in his life, he joined the Red Cross and went to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and the car of a Red Cross official. Walt Disney is important because he succeeded in promoting the American American ideals through his films.
