National Geographic Readers: Alexander Graham Bell: Criss Cross

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Across

  • 2. Bell's first invention was a machine to remove ___ from grains of wheat.
  • 3. Throughout his life, Bell never stopped ___.
  • 7. At the time when Bell moved to Massachusetts, the ___ was the fastest way to send messages.
  • 8. Alexander studied his father's ___ Speech system, created to help deaf people learn to talk.
  • 9. Bell demonstrated his ___ at a large fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 10. Bell's grandfather and father were both speech ___.

Down

  • 1. Bell's younger and older brothers both died from a lung ___.
  • 4. Bell created his first ___ when he was 11 years old.
  • 5. In 1898, Bell became ___ of the National Geographic Society.
  • 6. Bell's mother, Eliza, was almost totally ___.

Word Bank

teachers
deaf
invention
visible
disease
telegraph
telephone
president
experimenting
husks