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As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s ...
Alexander Graham Bell's legacy may be as the inventor of the telephone, ... Getty Images “Your deaf-mute business is hardly human to you,” she wrote to him in 1895.
Alexander Graham Bell may have been born in Scotland and become an American citizen, but he called Nova Scotia, Canada home for the last few decades of his life. By the time Bell was 38, he was ...
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, ... To view photos, sculptures and portraits of Alexander Graham Bell, visit the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery website. arrow-up Back to ...
In 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the first phone: a bulky device with a curved mouthpiece and earpiece connected by wires. It looked much different than the iPhones of today.
Nearly 300 never-before-heard recordings by inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell will be restored and made accessible later this year, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ...
You hear the name ‘Alexander Graham Bell’, and you think ‘inventor of the telephone.’ But he devoted much of his life to the so-called ‘education’ of deaf people. Bell’s fraught ...
100 Years Ago, Alexander Graham Bell Predicted Life in 2017. In 1917, the telephone’s inventor gave a speech that foresaw our modern world, from commercial aviation to the finite supply of oil.