Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell
ca. 1914–1919
Born
March 3, 1847
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Died
August 2, 1922 (aged 75)
Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cause of death Complications from diabetes
Residence
U.K., U.S., Canada
Citizenship
United Kingdom, USA, Canada
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
University College London
Occupation
Inventor, Scientist, Engineer, Professor (Boston University), Teacher of the deaf
Known for
Inventing the Telephone
Spouse(s)
Mabel Hubbard
(married 1877–1922)
Children
(4) Two sons who died in infancy and two daughters
Parents
Alexander Melville Bell
Eliza Grace Symonds Bell
Relatives
Gardiner Greene Hubbard (father-in-law)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (son-in-law)
Melville Bell Grosvenor (grandson)
Mabel Harlakenden Grosvenor (granddaughter)
Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (great-grandson)
Chichester Bell (cousin)
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and
innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.[1]
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his
mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work.[2] His research on hearing and speech further
led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first US patent
for the telephone in 1876.[3] In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as
a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[4][5]
Many other inventions marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications,
hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic
Society.[6] He has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history.[7]
Early life
Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847.[8] The family home was at 16 South Charlotte
Street, and has a stone inscription, marking it as Alexander Graham Bell's birthplace. He had two brothers: Melville
James Bell (1845–70) and Edward Charles Bell (1848–67). Both of his brothers died of tuberculosis.[9] His father
was Professor Alexander Melville Bell, and his mother was Eliza Grace (née Symonds).[10] Although he was born
"Alexander", at age 10, he made a plea to his father to have a middle name like his two brothers.[11][12] For his 11th
birthday, his father acquiesced and allowed him to adopt the middle name "Graham", chosen out of admiration for
Alexander Graham, a Canadian being treated by his father and boarder who had become a family friend.[13] To close
relatives and friends he remained "Aleck" which his father continued to call him into later life.[14]
First invention
As a child, young Alexander displayed a natural curiosity about his world, resulting in gathering botanical specimens
as well as experimenting even at an early age. His best friend was Ben Herdman, a neighbor whose family operated a
flour mill, the scene of many forays. Young Aleck asked what needed to be done at the mill. He was told wheat had
to be dehusked through a laborious process and at the age of 12, Bell built a homemade device that combined
rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes, creating a simple dehusking machine that was put into operation and used
steadily for a number of years.[15] In return, John Herdman gave both boys the run of a small workshop in which to
"invent".[15]
From his early years, Bell showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry and music that was encouraged by his
mother. With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist.[16] Despite being normally
quiet and introspective, he reveled in mimicry and "voice tricks" akin to ventriloquism that continually entertained
family guests during their occasional visits.[16] Bell was also deeply affected by his mother's gradual deafness, (she
began to lose her hearing when he was 12) and learned a manual finger language so he could sit at her side and tap
out silently the conversations swirling around the family parlour.[17] He also developed a technique of speaking in
clear, modulated tones directly into his mother's forehead wherein she would hear him with reasonable clarity.[18]
Bell's preoccupation with his mother's deafness led him to study acoustics.
His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution: his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle
in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists. His father published a variety of works on the subject,
several of which are still well known, especially his The Standard Elocutionist (1860),[16] which appeared in
Edinburgh in 1868. The Standard Elocutionist appeared in 168 British editions and sold over a quarter of a million
copies in the United States alone. In this treatise, his father explains his methods of how to instruct deaf-mutes (as
they were then known) to articulate words and read other people's lip movements to decipher meaning. Aleck's father
taught him and his brothers not only to write Visible Speech but to identify any symbol and its accompanying
sound.[19] Aleck became so proficient that he became a part of his father's public demonstrations and astounded
audiences with his abilities. He could decipher Visible Speech representing virtually every language, including Latin,
Scottish Gaelic and even Sanskrit, accurately reciting written tracts without any prior knowledge of their
pronunciation.[19]
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Education
As a young child, Bell, like his brothers, received his early schooling at home from his father. At an early age,
however, he was enrolled at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland, which he left at age 15, completing only
the first four forms.[20] His school record was undistinguished, marked by absenteeism and lacklustre grades. His
main interest remained in the sciences, especially biology, while he treated other school subjects with indifference, to
the dismay of his demanding father.[21] Upon leaving school, Bell travelled to London to live with his grandfather,
Alexander Bell. During the year he spent with his grandfather, a love of learning was born, with long hours spent in
serious discussion and study. The elder Bell took great efforts to have his young pupil learn to speak clearly and with
conviction, the attributes that his pupil would need to become a teacher himself.[22] At age 16, Bell secured a
position as a "pupil-teacher" of elocution and music, in Weston House Academy, at Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
Although he was enrolled as a student in Latin and Greek, he instructed classes himself in return for board and £10
per session.[23] The following year, he attended the University of Edinburgh; joining his older brother Melville who
had enrolled there the previous year. In 1868, not long before he departed for Canada with his family, Aleck
completed his matriculation exams and was accepted for admission to the University of London.[24]
First experiments with sound
Bell's father encouraged Aleck's interest in speech and, in 1863, took his sons to see a unique automaton, developed
by Sir Charles Wheatstone based on the earlier work of Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen.[25] The rudimentary
"mechanical man" simulated a human voice. Aleck was fascinated by the machine and after he obtained a copy of
von Kempelen's book, published in German, and had laboriously translated it, he and his older brother Melville built
their own automaton head. Their father, highly interested in their project, offered to pay for any supplies and spurred
the boys on with the enticement of a "big prize" if they were successful.[25] While his brother constructed the throat
and larynx, Aleck tackled the more difficult task of recreating a realistic skull. His efforts resulted in a remarkably
lifelike head that could "speak", albeit only a few words.[25] The boys would carefully adjust the "lips" and when a
bellows forced air through the windpipe, a very recognizable "Mama" ensued, to the delight of neighbors who came
to see the Bell invention.[26]
Intrigued by the results of the automaton, Bell continued to experiment with a live subject, the family's Skye Terrier,
"Trouve".[27] After he taught it to growl continuously, Aleck would reach into its mouth and manipulate the dog's
lips and vocal cords to produce a crude-sounding "Ow ah oo ga ma ma". With little convincing, visitors believed his
dog could articulate "How are you grandma?" More indicative of his playful nature, his experiments convinced
onlookers that they saw a "talking dog".[28] However, these initial forays into experimentation with sound led Bell to
undertake his first serious work on the transmission of sound, using tuning forks to explore resonance.
At the age of 19, he wrote a report on his work and sent it to philologist Alexander Ellis, a colleague of his father
(who would later be portrayed as Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion).[28] Ellis immediately wrote back
indicating that the experiments were similar to existing work in Germany, and also lent Aleck a copy of Hermann
von Helmholtz's work, The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.[29]
Dismayed to find that groundbreaking work had already been undertaken by Helmholtz who had conveyed vowel
sounds by means of a similar tuning fork "contraption", he pored over the German scientist's book. Working from his
own errant mistranslation of the original German edition, Aleck fortuitously then made a deduction that would be the
underpinning of all his future work on transmitting sound, reporting: "Without knowing much about the subject, it
seemed to me that if vowel sounds could be produced by electrical means, so could consonants, so could articulate
speech." He also later remarked: "I thought that Helmhotz had done it ... and that my failure was due only to my
ignorance of electricity. It was a valuable blunder ... If I had been able to read German in those days, I might never
have commenced my experiments!"[30][31][32]
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Family tragedy
In 1865, when the Bell family moved to London,[33] Bell returned to Weston House as an assistant master and, in his
spare hours, continued experiments on sound using a minimum of laboratory equipment. Bell concentrated on
experimenting with electricity to convey sound and later installed a telegraph wire from his room in Somerset
College to that of a friend.[34] Throughout late 1867, his health faltered mainly through exhaustion. His younger
brother, Edward "Ted," was similarly bed-ridden, suffering from tuberculosis. While Bell recovered (by then
referring to himself in correspondence as "A.G. Bell") and served the next year as an instructor at Somerset College,
Bath, England, his brother's condition deteriorated. Edward would never recover. Upon his brother's death, Bell
returned home in 1867. His older brother Melville had married and moved out. With aspirations to obtain a degree at
the University College London, Bell considered his next years as preparation for the degree examinations, devoting
his spare time at his family's residence to studying.
Helping his father in Visible Speech demonstrations and lectures brought Bell to Susanna E. Hull's private school for
the deaf in South Kensington, London. His first two pupils were "deaf mute" girls who made remarkable progress
under his tutelage. While his older brother seemed to achieve success on many fronts including opening his own
elocution school, applying for a patent on an invention, and starting a family, Bell continued as a teacher. However,
in May 1870, Melville died from complications due to tuberculosis, causing a family crisis. His father had also
suffered a debilitating illness earlier in life and had been restored to health by a convalescence in Newfoundland.
Bell's parents embarked upon a long-planned move when they realized that their remaining son was also sickly.
Acting decisively, Alexander Melville Bell asked Bell to arrange for the sale of all the family property,[35][36]
conclude all of his brother's affairs (Bell took over his last student, curing a pronounced lisp),[37] and join his father
and mother in setting out for the "New World".[38] Reluctantly, Bell also had to conclude a relationship with Marie
Eccleston, who, he had surmised, was not prepared to leave England with him.[38]
Canada
In 1870, at age 23, Bell, his brother's widow, Caroline (Margaret Ottaway),[39] and his parents travelled on the SS
Nestorian to Canada.[40] After landing at Quebec City, the Bells boarded a train to Montreal and later to Paris,
Ontario, to stay with the Reverend Thomas Henderson, a family friend. After a brief stay with the Hendersons, the
Bell family purchased a farm of 10.5 acres (42,000 m2) at Tutelo Heights (now called Tutela Heights), near
Brantford, Ontario. The property consisted of an orchard, large farm house, stable, pigsty, hen-house and a carriage
house, which bordered the Grand River.[41][42]
At the homestead, Bell set up his own workshop in the converted carriage house[43] near to what he called his
"dreaming place", a large hollow nestled in trees at the back of the property above the river.[44] Despite his frail
condition upon arriving in Canada, Bell found the climate and environs to his liking, and rapidly improved.[45][46] He
continued his interest in the study of the human voice and when he discovered the Six Nations Reserve across the
river at Onondaga, he learned the Mohawk language and translated its unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech
symbols. For his work, Bell was awarded the title of Honorary Chief and participated in a ceremony where he
donned a Mohawk headdress and danced traditional dances.[47][48]
After setting up his workshop, Bell continued experiments based on Helmholtz's work with electricity and sound.[43]
He designed a piano, which, by means of electricity, could transmit its music at a distance. Once the family was
settled in, both Bell and his father made plans to establish a teaching practice and in 1871, he accompanied his father
to Montreal, where Melville was offered a position to teach his System of Visible Speech.
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Work with the deaf
Bell's father was invited by Sarah Fuller, principal of the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (which continues today as
the public Horace Mann School for the Deaf),[49] in Boston, Massachusetts, to introduce the Visible Speech System
by providing training for Fuller's instructors, but he declined the post, in favor of his son. Traveling to Boston in
April 1871, Bell proved successful in training the school's instructors.[50] He was subsequently asked to repeat the
program at the American Asylum for Deaf-mutes in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Clarke School for the Deaf in
Northampton, Massachusetts.
Returning home to Brantford after six months abroad, Bell continued his experiments with his "harmonic
telegraph".[51][52] The basic concept behind his device was that messages could be sent through a single wire if each
message was transmitted at a different pitch, but work on both the transmitter and receiver was needed.[53] Unsure of
his future, he first contemplated returning to London to complete his studies, but decided to return to Boston as a
teacher.[54] His father helped him set up his private practice by contacting Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the president of
the Clarke School for the Deaf for a recommendation. Teaching his father's system, in October 1872 Alexander Bell
opened his "School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" in Boston, which attracted a large number of
deaf pupils with his first class numbering 30 students.[55][56] While he was working as a private tutor, one of his
most famous pupils was Helen Keller, who came to him as a young child unable to see, hear, or speak. She was later
to say that Bell dedicated his life to the penetration of that "inhuman silence which separates and estranges."[57]
Several influential people of the time, including Bell, viewed deafness as something that ought to be eradicated, and
also believed that with resources and effort they could teach the deaf to speak and avoid the use of sign language,
thus enabling their integration within the wider society from which many were often being excluded.[58] However in
several schools children were mistreated, for example by having their hands tied behind their backs so they could not
communicate by signing—the only language they knew—and were therefore forced to attempt oral communication.
Due to his efforts to suppress the teaching of sign language, Bell is often viewed negatively by those embracing deaf
culture.
Continuing experimentation
In the following year, Bell became professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of
Oratory. During this period, he alternated between Boston and Brantford, spending summers in his Canadian home.
At Boston University, Bell was "swept up" by the excitement engendered by the many scientists and inventors
residing in the city. He continued his research in sound and endeavored to find a way to transmit musical notes and
articulate speech, but although absorbed by his experiments, he found it difficult to devote enough time to
experimentation. While days and evenings were occupied by his teaching and private classes, Bell began to stay
awake late into the night, running experiment after experiment in rented facilities at his boarding house. Keeping up
"night owl" hours, he worried that his work would be discovered and took great pains to lock up his notebooks and
laboratory equipment. Bell had a specially made table where he could place his notes and equipment inside a locking
cover.[59] Worse still, his health deteriorated as he suffered severe headaches.[53] Returning to Boston in fall 1873,
Bell made a fateful decision to concentrate on his experiments in sound.
Deciding to give up his lucrative private Boston practice, Bell only retained two students, six-year old "Georgie"
Sanders, deaf from birth and 15-year old Mabel Hubbard. Each pupil would serve to play an important role in the
next developments. George's father, Thomas Sanders, a wealthy businessman, offered Bell a place to stay at nearby
Salem with Georgie's grandmother, complete with a room to "experiment". Although the offer was made by George's
mother and followed the year-long arrangement in 1872 where her son and his nurse had moved to quarters next to
Bell's boarding house, it was clear that Mr. Sanders was backing the proposal. The arrangement was for teacher and
student to continue their work together with free room and board thrown in.[60] Mabel was a bright, attractive girl
who was ten years his junior but became the object of Bell's affection. Losing her hearing after a near-fatal bout of
scarlet fever close to her fifth birthday,[61][62][63] she had learned to read lips but her father, Gardiner Greene
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Hubbard, Bell's benefactor and personal friend, wanted her to work directly with her teacher.[64]
Telephone
By 1874, Bell's initial work on the harmonic telegraph had entered a formative stage with progress it made both at
his new Boston "laboratory" (a rented facility) as well as at his family home in Canada a big success.[65] While
working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw
shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. Bell thought it might be possible to generate
undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves.[66] Bell also thought that multiple metal reeds tuned
to different frequencies like a harp would be able to convert the undulating currents back into sound. But he had no
working model to demonstrate the feasibility of these ideas.[67]
In 1874, telegraph message traffic was rapidly expanding and in the words of Western Union President William
Orton, had become "the nervous system of commerce". Orton had contracted with inventors Thomas Edison and
Elisha Gray to find a way to send multiple telegraph messages on each telegraph line to avoid the great cost of
constructing new lines.[68] When Bell mentioned to Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders that he was working on
a method of sending multiple tones on a telegraph wire using a multi-reed device, the two wealthy patrons began to
financially support Bell's experiments.[69] Patent matters would be handled by Hubbard's patent attorney, Anthony
Pollok.[70]
In March 1875, Bell and Pollok visited the famous scientist Joseph Henry, who was then director of the Smithsonian
Institution, and asked Henry's advice on the electrical multi-reed apparatus that Bell hoped would transmit the human
voice by telegraph. Henry replied that Bell had "the germ of a great invention". When Bell said that he did not have
the necessary knowledge, Henry replied, "Get it!" That declaration greatly encouraged Bell to keep trying, even
though he did not have the equipment needed to continue his experiments, nor the ability to create a working model
of his ideas. However, a chance meeting in 1874 between Bell and Thomas A. Watson, an experienced electrical
designer and mechanic at the electrical machine shop of Charles Williams, changed all that.
With financial support from Sanders and Hubbard, Bell hired Thomas Watson as his assistant,[71] and the two of
them experimented with acoustic telegraphy. On June 2, 1875, Watson accidentally plucked one of the reeds and
Bell, at the receiving end of the wire, heard the overtones of the reed; overtones that would be necessary for
transmitting speech. That demonstrated to Bell that only one reed or armature was necessary, not multiple reeds.
This led to the "gallows" sound-powered telephone, which could transmit indistinct, voice-like sounds, but not clear
speech.
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The race to the patent office
In 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. Since he had agreed to share
U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario,
George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a patent in the U.S. only after they
received word from Britain (Britain would issue patents only for discoveries not previously patented elsewhere).[72]
Meanwhile, Elisha Gray was also experimenting with acoustic
telegraphy and thought of a way to transmit speech using a water
transmitter. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S.
Patent Office for a telephone design that used a water transmitter. That
same morning, Bell's lawyer filed Bell's application with the patent
office. There is considerable debate about who arrived first and Gray
later challenged the primacy of Bell's patent. Bell was in Boston on
February 14 and did not arrive in Washington until February 26.
Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S.
Patent Office. Bell's patent covered "the method of, and apparatus for,
transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing
electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air
accompanying the said vocal or other sound"[74] [75] Bell returned to
Boston the same day and the next day resumed work, drawing in his
notebook a diagram similar to that in Gray's patent caveat.
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Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent
On March 10, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Bell
drawing, March 7, 1876.
succeeded in getting his telephone to work, using a liquid transmitter
similar to Gray's design. Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to
vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit. When Bell spoke the famous sentence "Mr
Watson—Come here—I want to see you" into the liquid transmitter,[76] Watson, listening at the receiving end in an
adjoining room, heard the words clearly.[77]
Although Bell was, and still is, accused of stealing the telephone from Gray,[78] Bell used Gray's water transmitter
design only after Bell's patent was granted and only as a proof of concept scientific experiment[79] to prove to his
own satisfaction that intelligible "articulate speech" (Bell's words) could be electrically transmitted.[80] After March
1876, Bell focused on improving the electromagnetic telephone and never used Gray's liquid transmitter in public
demonstrations or commercial use.[81]
The question of priority for the variable resistance feature of the telephone was raised by the Examiner before he
approved Bell's patent application. He told Bell that his claim for the variable resistance feature was also described in
Gray's caveat. Bell pointed to a variable resistance device in Bell's previous application in which Bell described a
cup of mercury, not water. Bell had filed the mercury application at the patent office a year earlier on February 25,
1875, long before Elisha Gray described the water device. In addition, Gray abandoned his caveat, and because Gray
did not contest Bell's priority, the Examiner approved Bell's patent on March 3, 1876. Gray had reinvented the
variable resistance telephone, but Bell was the first to write down the idea and the first to test it in a telephone.[82]
The patent examiner, Zenas Fisk Wilber, later stated in a sworn affidavit that he was an alcoholic who was much in
debt to Bell's lawyer, Marcellus Bailey, with whom he had served in the Civil War. He claimed he showed Gray's
patent caveat to Bailey. Wilber also claimed (after Bell arrived in Washington D.C. from Boston) that he showed
Gray's caveat to Bell and that Bell paid him $100. Bell claimed they discussed the patent only in general terms,
although in a letter to Gray, Bell admitted that he learned some of the technical details. Bell denied in a sworn
affidavit that he ever gave Wilber any money.[83]
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Later developments
Continuing his experiments in Brantford, Bell brought home a working model of his telephone. On August 3, 1876,
from the telegraph office in Mount Pleasant five miles (8 km) away from Brantford, Bell sent a tentative telegram
indicating that he was ready. With curious onlookers packed into the office as witnesses, faint voices were heard
replying. The following night, he amazed guests as well as his family when a message was received at the Bell home
from Brantford, four miles (six km) distant along an improvised wire strung up along telegraph lines and fences, and
laid through a tunnel. This time, guests at the household distinctly heard people in Brantford reading and singing.
These experiments clearly proved that the telephone could work over long distances.[84]
Bell and his partners, Hubbard and Sanders, offered to sell the patent
outright to Western Union for $100,000. The president of Western
Union balked, countering that the telephone was nothing but a toy.
Two years later, he told colleagues that if he could get the patent for
$25 million he would consider it a bargain. By then, the Bell company
no longer wanted to sell the patent.[85] Bell's investors would become
millionaires while he fared well from residuals and at one point had
assets of nearly one million dollars.[86]
Bell began a series of public demonstrations and lectures to introduce
the new invention to the scientific community as well as the general
public. Only one day later, his demonstration of an early telephone
prototype at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia made the
telephone the featured headline worldwide.[87] Influential visitors to
the exhibition included Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, and later Bell had
the opportunity to demonstrate the invention personally to William
Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from
New York to Chicago in 1892.
Thomson, a renowned Scottish scientist. Later Bell demonstrated the
invention to Queen Victoria who had requested a private audience at
Osborne House, her Isle of Wight home. She called the demonstration "most extraordinary". The enthusiasm
surrounding Bell's public displays laid the groundwork for universal acceptance of the revolutionary device.[88]
The Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, and by 1886, more than 150,000 people in the U.S. owned
telephones. Bell company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone, which emerged as one of
the most successful products ever. In 1879, the Bell company acquired Edison's patents for the carbon microphone
from Western Union. This made the telephone practical for long distances and it was no longer necessary to shout to
be heard at the receiving telephone.
In January 1915, Bell made the first ceremonial transcontinental telephone call. Calling from the AT&T head office
at 15 Dey Street in New York City, Bell was heard by Thomas Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco. The
New York Times reported:
On October 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a
two-mile wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston. It was the first wire conversation ever held.
Yesterday afternoon [on January 25, 1915] the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a
3,400-mile wire between New York and San Francisco. Dr. Bell, the veteran inventor of the telephone, was in
New York, and Mr. Watson, his former associate, was on the other side of the continent. They heard each
other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty-eight years ago.[89]
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Competitors
As is sometimes common in scientific discoveries, simultaneous developments can occur, as evidenced by a number
of inventors who were at work on the telephone.[4] Over a period of 18 years, the Bell Telephone Company faced
587 court challenges to its patents, including five that went to the US Supreme Court,[90] but none was successful in
establishing priority over the original Bell patent[91][92] and the Bell Telephone Company never lost a case that had
proceeded to a final trial stage.[91] Bell's laboratory notes and family letters were the key to establishing a long
lineage to his experiments.[91] The Bell company lawyers successfully fought off myriad lawsuits generated initially
around the challenges by Elisha Gray and Amos Dolbear. In personal correspondence to Bell, both Gray and Dolbear
had acknowledged his prior work, which considerably weakened their later claims.[93]
On January 13, 1887, the US Government moved to annul the patent issued to Bell on the grounds of fraud and
misrepresentation. After a series of decisions and reversals, the Bell company won a decision in the Supreme Court,
though a couple of the original claims from the lower court cases were left undecided.[94][95] By the time that the
trial wound its way through nine years of legal battles, the U.S. prosecuting attorney had died and the two Bell
patents (No. 174,465 and dated March 7, 1876 and No. 186,787 dated January 30, 1877) were no longer in effect,
although the presiding judges agreed to continue the proceedings due to the case's importance as a "precedent". With
a change in administration and charges of conflict of interest (on both sides) arising from the original trial, the US
Attorney General dropped the lawsuit on November 30, 1897 leaving several issues undecided on the merits.[96]
During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first
working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834. In 1886, in the first of three cases in which he was involved, Meucci
took the stand as a witness in the hopes of establishing his invention's priority. Meucci's evidence in this case was
disputed due to a lack of material evidence for his inventions as his working models were purportedly lost at the
laboratory of American District Telegraph (ADT) of New York, which was later incorporated as a subsidiary of
Western Union in 1901.[97][98] Meucci's work, like many other inventors of the period, was based on earlier acoustic
principles and despite evidence of earlier experiments, the final case involving Meucci was eventually dropped upon
Meucci's death.[99] However, due to the efforts of Congressman Vito Fossella, the U.S. House of Representatives on
June 11, 2002 stated that Meucci's "work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged", even though
this did not put an end to a still contentious issue.[100][101] [102][103] Some modern scholars do not agree with the
claims that Bell's work on the telephone was influenced by Meucci's inventions.[104] [105]
The value of the Bell patent was acknowledged throughout the world, and patent applications were made in most
major countries, but when Bell had delayed the German patent application, the electrical firm of Siemens & Halske
(S&H) managed to set up a rival manufacturer of Bell telephones under their own patent. The Siemens company
produced near-identical copies of the Bell telephone without having to pay royalties.[106] The establishment of the
International Bell Telephone Company in Brussels, Belgium in 1880, as well as a series of agreements in other
countries eventually consolidated a global telephone operation. The strain put on Bell by his constant appearances in
court, necessitated by the legal battles, eventually resulted in his resignation from the company.[107][108]
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Family life
On July 11, 1877, a few days after the Bell Telephone Company was
established, Bell married Mabel Hubbard (1857–1923) at the Hubbard
estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His wedding present to his bride
was to turn over 1,487 of his 1,497 shares in the newly formed Bell
Telephone Company.[109] Shortly thereafter, the newlyweds embarked
on a year-long honeymoon in Europe. During that excursion, Alec took
a handmade model of his telephone with him, making it a "working
holiday". The courtship had begun years earlier; however, Alexander
waited until he was more financially secure before marrying. Although
the telephone appeared to be an "instant" success, it was not initially a
profitable venture and Bell's main sources of income were from
lectures until after 1897.[110] One unusual request exacted by his
fiancée was that he use "Alec" rather than the family's earlier familiar
name of "Aleck". From 1876, he would sign his name "Alec
Bell".[111][112] They had four children: Elsie May Bell (1878–1964)
Alexander Graham Bell, his wife Mabel Gardiner
who married Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic
Hubbard, and their daughters Elsie (left) and
fame,[113][114][115] [116] Marian Hubbard Bell (1880–1962) who was
Marian ca. 1885
referred to as "Daisy",[117] and two sons who died in infancy. The Bell
family home was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1880 when Bell's father-in-law bought a house in Washington,
D.C., and later in 1882 bought a home in the same city for Bell's family, so that they could be with him while he
attended to the numerous court cases involving patent disputes.[118]
Bell was a British subject throughout his early life in Scotland and later in Canada until 1882, when he became a
naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1915, he characterized his status as: "I am not one of those hyphenated
Americans who claim allegiance to two countries."[119] Despite this declaration, Bell has been proudly claimed as a
"native son" by all three countries he resided in: the United States, Canada and Scotland.[120]
The Brodhead-Bell mansion, the Bell family
residence in Washington, D.C., from 1882 to
[121]
1889.
By 1885, a new summer retreat was contemplated. That summer, the
Bells had a vacation on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, spending
time at the small village of Baddeck.[122] Returning in 1886, Bell
started building an estate on a point across from Baddeck, overlooking
Bras d'Or Lake.[123] By 1889, a large house, christened The Lodge was
completed and two years later, a larger complex of buildings, including
a new laboratory,[122] were begun that the Bells would name Beinn
Bhreagh (Gaelic: beautiful mountain) after Alec's ancestral Scottish
highlands.[124] [125]Bell would spend his final, and some of his most
productive, years in residence in both Washington, D.C., where he and
his family initially resided for most of the year, and at Beinn
Bhreagh.[126]
Until the end of his life, Bell and his family would alternate between the two homes, but Beinn Bhreagh would, over
the next 30 years, become more than a summer home as Bell became so absorbed in his experiments that his annual
stays lengthened. Both Mabel and Alec became immersed in the Baddeck community and were accepted by the
villagers as "their own".[122] The Bells were still in residence at Beinn Bhreagh when the Halifax Explosion occurred
on December 6, 1917. Mabel and Alec mobilized the community to help victims in Halifax.[127]
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Later inventions
Although Alexander Graham Bell is most often associated with the
invention of the telephone, his interests were extremely varied.
According to one of his biographers, Charlotte Gray, Bell's work
ranged "unfettered across the scientific landscape" and he often went
to bed voraciously reading the Encyclopædia Britannica, scouring it
for new areas of interest.[128] The range of Bell's inventive genius is
represented only in part by the 18 patents granted in his name alone
and the 12 he shared with his collaborators. These included 14 for the
telephone and telegraph, four for the Photophone, one for the
phonograph, five for aerial vehicles, four for "hydroairplanes" and two
for selenium cells. Bell's inventions spanned a wide range of interests
and included a metal jacket to assist in breathing, the audiometer to
detect minor hearing problems, a device to locate icebergs,
investigations on how to separate salt from seawater, and work on
finding alternative fuels.
Alexander Graham Bell in his later years.
Bell worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques
for teaching speech to the deaf. During his Volta Laboratory period,
Bell and his associates considered impressing a magnetic field on a record as a means of reproducing sound.
Although the trio briefly experimented with the concept, they could not develop a workable prototype. They
abandoned the idea, never realizing they had glimpsed a basic principle which would one day find its application in
the tape recorder, the hard disc and floppy disc drive and other magnetic media.
Bell's own home used a primitive form of air conditioning, in which fans blew currents of air across great blocks of
ice. He also anticipated modern concerns with fuel shortages and industrial pollution. Methane gas, he reasoned,
could be produced from the waste of farms and factories. At his Canadian estate in Nova Scotia, he experimented
with composting toilets and devices to capture water from the atmosphere. In a magazine interview published shortly
before his death, he reflected on the possibility of using solar panels to heat houses.
Metal detector
Bell is also credited with the invention of the metal detector in 1881. The device was quickly put together in an
attempt to find the bullet in the body of US President James Garfield. The metal detector worked flawlessly in tests
but did not find the assassin's bullet partly because the metal bed frame on which the President was lying disturbed
the instrument, resulting in static.[129] The president's surgeons, who were skeptical of the device, ignored Bell's
requests to move the president to a bed not fitted with metal springs. Alternatively, although Bell had detected a
slight sound on his first test, the bullet may have been lodged too deeply to be detected by the crude apparatus.[129]
Bell gave a full account of his experiments in a paper read before the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) in August 1882.
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Hydrofoils
The March 1906 Scientific American article by American pioneer
William E. Meacham explained the basic principle of hydrofoils and
hydroplanes. Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane as a very
significant achievement. Based on information gained from that article
he began to sketch concepts of what is now called a hydrofoil boat.
Bell and assistant Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin began hydrofoil
experimentation in the summer of 1908 as a possible aid to airplane
takeoff from water. Baldwin studied the work of the Italian inventor
Enrico Forlanini and began testing models. This led him and Bell to the
development of practical hydrofoil watercraft.
Bell HD-4 on a test run ca. 1919
During his world tour of 1910–11, Bell and Baldwin met with Forlanini in France. They had rides in the Forlanini
hydrofoil boat over Lake Maggiore. Baldwin described it as being as smooth as flying. On returning to Baddeck, a
number of initial concepts were built as experimental models, including the Dhonnas Beag, the first self-propelled
Bell-Baldwin hydrofoil.[130] The experimental boats were essentially proof-of-concept prototypes that culminated in
the more substantial HD-4, powered by Renault engines. A top speed of 54 miles per hour (87 km/h) was achieved,
with the hydrofoil exhibiting rapid acceleration, good stability and steering along with the ability to take waves
without difficulty.[131] In 1913, Dr. Bell hired Walter Pinaud, a Sydney yacht designer and builder as well as the
proprietor of Pinaud's Yacht Yard in Westmount, Nova Scotia to work on the pontoons of the HD-4. Pinaud soon
took over the boatyard at Bell Laboratories on Beinn Bhreagh, Bell's estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Pinaud's
experience in boat-building enabled him to make useful design changes to the HD-4. After the First World War,
work began again on the HD-4. Bell's report to the U.S. Navy permitted him to obtain two 350 horsepower (260 kW)
engines in July 1919. On September 9, 1919, the HD-4 set a world marine speed record of 70.86 miles per hour
(114.04 km/h),[132] a record which stood for ten years.
Aeronautics
In 1891, Bell had begun experiments to develop motor-powered
heavier-than-air aircraft. The AEA was first formed as Bell shared the
vision to fly with his wife, who advised him to seek "young" help as
Alexander was at the graceful age of 60.
In 1898, Bell experimented with tetrahedral box kites and wings
constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon
silk.[133] The tetrahedral wings were named Cygnet I, II and III, and
were flown both unmanned and manned (Cygnet I crashed during a
flight carrying Selfridge) in the period from 1907–1912. Some of Bell's
kites are on display at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic
Site.[134]
AEA Silver Dart ca. 1909
Bell was a supporter of aerospace engineering research through the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), officially
formed at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in October 1907 at the suggestion of his wife Mabel and with her financial support
after the sale of some of her real estate.[135] The AEA was headed by Bell and the founding members were four
young men: American Glenn H. Curtiss, a motorcycle manufacturer at the time and who held the title "world's fastest
man", having ridden his self-constructed motor bicycle around in the shortest time, and who was later awarded the
Scientific American Trophy for the first official one-kilometre flight in the Western hemisphere, and who later
became a world-renowned airplane manufacturer; Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, an official observer from the US
Federal government and the only person in the army who believed aviation was the future; Frederick W. Baldwin,
Alexander Graham Bell
the first Canadian and first British subject to pilot a public flight in Hammondsport, New York, and J.A.D. McCurdy
—Baldwin and McCurdy being new engineering graduates from the University of Toronto.
The AEA's work progressed to heavier-than-air machines, applying their knowledge of kites to gliders. Moving to
Hammondsport, the group then designed and built the Red Wing, framed in bamboo and covered in red silk and
powered by a small air-cooled engine.[136] On March 12, 1908, over Keuka Lake, the biplane lifted off on the first
public flight in North America.[137] [138] The innovations that were incorporated into this design included a cockpit
enclosure and tail rudder (later variations on the original design would add ailerons as a means of control). One of
the AEA's inventions, the aileron, which was also created independently by Robert Esnault-Pelterie and several
others, was to become a standard component on all airplanes. The White Wing and June Bug were to follow and by
the end of 1908, over 150 flights without mishap had been accomplished. However, the AEA had depleted its initial
reserves and only a $15,000 grant from Mrs. Bell allowed it to continue with experiments.[139]
Their final aircraft design, the Silver Dart embodied all of the advancements found in the earlier machines. On
February 23, 1909, Bell was present as the Silver Dart flown by J.A.D. McCurdy from the frozen ice of Bras d'Or,
made the first aircraft flight in Canada. Bell had worried that the flight was too dangerous and had arranged for a
doctor to be on hand. With the successful flight, the AEA disbanded and the Silver Dart would revert to Baldwin and
McCurdy who began the Canadian Aerodrome Company and would later demonstrate the aircraft to the Canadian
Army.[140]
Eugenics
Bell was connected with the eugenics movement in the United States. In his lecture Memoir upon the formation of a
deaf variety of the human race presented to the National Academy of Sciences on November 13, 1883 he noted that
congenitally deaf parents were more likely to produce deaf children and tentatively suggested that couples where
both parties were deaf should not marry.[141] However, it was his hobby of livestock breeding which led to his
appointment to biologist David Starr Jordan's Committee on Eugenics, under the auspices of the American Breeders
Association. The committee unequivocally extended the principle to man.[142] From 1912 until 1918 he was the
chairman of the board of scientific advisers to the Eugenics Record Office associated with Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory in New York, and regularly attended meetings. In 1921, he was the honorary president of the Second
International Congress of Eugenics held under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New
York. Organisations such as these advocated passing laws (with success in some states) that established the
compulsory sterilization of people deemed to be, as Bell called them, a "defective variety of the human race". By the
late 1930s, about half the states in the U.S. had eugenics laws, and California's compulsory sterilization law was used
as a model for that of Nazi Germany.[143]
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Legacy and honors
Honors and tributes flowed to Bell in increasing numbers as his most
famous invention became ubiquitous and his personal fame grew. Bell
received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, to
the point that the requests almost became burdensome.[145] During his
life he also received dozens of major awards, medals and other tributes.
These included statuary monuments to both him and the new form of
communication his telephone created, notably the Bell Telephone
Memorial erected in his honor in Alexander Graham Bell Gardens in
Brantford, Ontario, in 1917.[146]
A large number of Bell's writings, personal correspondence, notebooks,
papers and other documents[147] reside at both the United States
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (as the Alexander Graham
Bell Family Papers), and at the Alexander Graham Bell Institute],
Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia; major portions of which are
available for online viewing.
A number of historic sites and other marks commemorate Bell in North
America and Europe, including the first telephone companies of the
United States and Canada. Among the major sites are:
[144]
Bell statue by A.E. Cleeve Horne,
similar in
style to the Lincoln Memorial, in the front portico
of the Bell Telephone Building of Brantford,
Ontario, The Telephone City. (Courtesy:
Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford,
Ontario, Canada)
• The Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, maintained by
Parks Canada, which incorporates the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, close to the
Bell estate Beinn Bhreagh[148]
• The Bell Homestead National Historic Site, also known as Melville House, overlooking Brantford, Ontario and
the Grand River, which was the Bell family's first home in North America;
• Canada's first telephone company building, "the Henderson Home", of the nascent 1877 Bell Telephone Company
of Canada, which was carefully relocated in 1969 to the historic Bell Homestead. The Bell Homestead" and the
"Bell Telephone Company Building" are both maintained by the Bell Homestead Society. in Brantford,
Ontario[149]
• The Alexander Graham Bell Memorial Park, which features a broad neoclassical monument built in 1917 by
public subscription. The monument graphically depicts mankind's ability to span the globe through
telecommunications;[150]
• The Alexander Graham Bell Museum (opened in 1956), part of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
which was completed in 1978 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Many of the museum's artifacts were donated by Bell's
daughters;
• In 1880, Bell received the Volta Prize with a purse of 50,000 francs
(approximately US$250,000 in today's dollars[151]) for the invention
of the telephone from the Académie française, representing the
French government. Among the luminaries who judged were Victor
Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. The Volta Prize was conceived by
Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801, and named in honor of Alessandro
Volta, with Bell receiving the third grand prize in its
history.[152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159] Since Bell was becoming
increasingly affluent, he used his prize money to create endowment
The Bell Museum, Cape Breton, part of the
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.
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funds (the 'Volta Fund') and institutions in and around the United States capital of Washington, D.C.. These
included the prestigious 'Volta Laboratory Association' (1880), also known as the Volta Laboratory and as the
'Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory', and which eventually led to the Volta Bureau (1887) as a center for studies
on deafness which is still in operation in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The Volta Laboratory became an
experimental facility devoted to scientific discovery, and the very next year invented a wax phonograph cylinder
that was later used by Thomas Edison;[160] The laboratory was also the site where he and his associate invented
his 'proudest achievement', the Photophone, the optical telephone which presaged fibre optical
telecommunications, while the Volta Bureau would later evolve into the Alexander Graham Bell Association for
the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (the AG Bell), a leading center for the research and pedagogy of deafness.
In partnership with Gardiner Hubbard, Bell helped establish the publication Science during the early 1880s. In 1888,
Bell was one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society and became its second president
(1897–1904), and also became a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (1898–1922). The French government
conferred on him the decoration of the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor); the Royal Society of Arts in London
awarded him the Albert Medal in 1902; and the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, granted him a PhD He was
awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1912. He was one of the founders of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers in 1884, and served as its president from 1891–92. Bell was later awarded the AIEE's Edison
Medal in 1914 "For meritorious achievement in the invention of the telephone".[161]
The bel (B) and the smaller decibel (dB) are units of measurement of sound intensity invented by Bell Labs and
named after him.[162] [163][164] Since 1976 the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been awarded to honor
outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications.
In 1940 the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp honoring
Bell in its 'Famous Americans Series'. The First Day of Issue ceremony
was held on October 28 in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where Bell
spent considerable time on research and working with the deaf. The
Bell stamp became very popular and sold out in little time. The stamp
became, and remains to this day, the most valuable one of the
series.[165]
The 150th anniversary of Bell's birth in 1997 was marked by a special
issue of commemorative £1 banknotes from the Royal Bank of
Scotland. The illustrations on the reverse of the note include Bell's face
in profile, his signature, and objects from Bell's life and career: users of
the telephone over the ages; an audio wave signal; a diagram of a
~ A.G. Bell ~ Issue of 1940
telephone receiver; geometric shapes from engineering structures;
representations of sign language and the phonetic alphabet; the geese
which helped him to understand flight; and the sheep which he studied to understand genetics.[166] Additionally, the
Government of Canada honored Bell in 1997 with a C$100 gold coin, in tribute also to the 150th anniversary of his
birth,[167] and with a silver dollar coin in 2009 to honor of the 100th anniversary of flight in Canada. That first flight
was made by an airplane designed under Dr. Bell's tutelage, named the Silver Dart[168] Bell's image, and also those
of his many inventions have graced paper money, coinage and postal stamps in numerous countries worldwide for
many dozens of years.
Bell's name is widely known and still used as part of the names of dozens of educational institutes, corporate
namesakes, street and place names around the world. Alexander Graham Bell was also ranked 57th among the 100
Greatest Britons (2002) in an official BBC nationwide poll, and among the Top Ten Greatest Canadians (2004), and
the 100 Greatest Americans (2005).[169][170] In 2006, Bell was also named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish
scientists in history after having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'.[171]
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Honorary degrees
Alexander Graham Bell, who could not complete the university
program of his youth, received numerous Honorary Degrees from
academic institutions, including:
• Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C. (PhD) in 1880[172]
• Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (LL.D) in 1896
• University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Bavaria (PhD) in 1902
• University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland (LL.D) in April
1906[173]
• Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1909
• Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (LL.D) on June 25,
1913[174]
This list is incomplete.
Death
Bell, an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws
degree (LL.D.) at the university in 1906.
Bell died of complications arising from diabetes on August 2, 1922, at
his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, at age 75.[175] Bell had
also been afflicted with pernicious anemia.[176] His last view of the
land he had inhabited was by moonlight on his mountain estate at 2:00 A.M.[177][178][179] While tending to her
husband after his long illness, Mabel whispered, "Don't leave me." By way of reply, Bell traced the sign for no—and
then he expired.[154][180]
On learning of Bell's death, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, cabled Mrs. Bell, saying:
[The Government expresses] to you our sense of the world's loss in
the death of your distinguished husband. It will ever be a source of
pride to our country that the great invention, with which his name is
immortally associated, is a part of its history. On the behalf of the
citizens of Canada, may I extend to you an expression of our combined
gratitude and sympathy.[154]
Bell's coffin was constructed of Beinn Bhreagh pine by his laboratory staff, lined with the same red silk fabric used
in his tetrahedral kite experiments. To help celebrate his life, his wife asked guests not to wear black (the traditional
funeral color) while attending his service, during which soloist Jean MacDonald sang a verse of Robert Louis
Stevenson's 'Requiem':[181]
Under a wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die
And I lay me down with a will.
Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the
man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance".[122][182]
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain, on his estate where he had resided
increasingly for the last 35 years of his life, overlooking Bras d'Or Lake.[154] He was survived by his wife Mabel and
his two daughters, Elsie May and Marion.[154][183]
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References
Notes
[1] Bell was a British citizen for most of his early life. He applied for American citizenship after 1877, gained it in 1882, and referred to himself
as an American citizen from that point on. Quote from Bell speaking to his wife: "you are a citizen because you can't help it – you were born
one, but I chose to be one."Gray 2006, p. 228. Aside from Bell's own view of his citizenship, many, if not most Canadians considered him also
as one of theirs as evidenced in an address by the Governor General of Canada. On October 24, 1917 he spoke in Brantford, Ontario at the
unveiling of the Bell Telephone Memorial to an audience numbering in the thousands, saying: "Dr. Bell is to be congratulated upon being able
to receive the recognition of his fellow citizens and fellow countrymen". Reville, F. Douglas. History of the County of Brant: Illustrated With
Fifty Half-Tones Taken From Miniatures And Photographs (http:/ / brantford. library. on. ca/ localhistory/ pdfs/ reville1. pdf), Brantford, ON:
Brant Historical Society, Hurley Printing, 1920, p.319. Retrieved from Brantford.Library.on.ca May 4, 2012.
[2] Bruce 1990, p. 419.
[3] Quote: "He thought he could harness the new electronic technology by creating a machine with a transmitter and receiver that would send
sounds telegraphically to help people hear."Black 1997, p. 18.
[4] MacLeod 1999, p. 19.
[5] After Bell's death his wife Mabel wrote to John J. Carty, an AT&T vice-president, and commented on her husband's reluctance to have a
phone in his study, saying "[of the statements in the newspapers] ...publishing of Mr. Bell's dislike of the telephone. Of course, he never had
one in his study. That was where he went when he wanted to be alone with his thoughts and his work. The telephone, of course, means
intrusion by the outside world. And the little difficulties and delays often attending the establishment of conversation... did irritate him, so that
as a rule he preferred having others send and receive messages. But all really important business over the telephone he transacted himself.
There are few private houses more completely equipped with telephones than ours... and there was nothing that Mr. Bell was more particular
about than our telephone service... We never could have come here [to Beinn Bhreagh] in the first place or continued here, but for the
telephone which kept us in close touch with doctors and neighbors and the regular telegraph office. . . . Mr. Bell did like to say in fun, "Why
did I ever invent the Telephone," but no one had a higher appreciation of its indispensableness or used it more freely when need was—either
personally or by deputy —and he was really tremendously proud of it and all it was accomplishing."Bell, Mabel. Twenty-Five Years Ago: Dr.
Bell's Telephone Service (letter, dated August 24, 1922) (http:/ / ia600208. us. archive. org/ 17/ items/ belltelephonemag26amerrich/
belltelephonemag26amerrich. pdf), Bell Telephone Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, October 1922, reprinted in Bell Telephone Magazine, Autumn
1947, pg. 174.
[6] "National Geographic Mission." (http:/ / www. nationalgeographic. com/ mission/ ) nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved: July 28, 2010.
[7] Hart 2000, p. 222.
[8] Petrie 1975, p. 4.
[9] "Time Line of Alexander Graham Bell." (http:/ / memory. loc. gov/ ammem/ bellhtml/ belltime. html) memory.loc.goiv. Retrieved: July 28,
2010.
[10] "Alexander M. Bell Dead. Father of Prof. A.G. Bell Developed Sign Language for Mutes." New York Times Tuesday, August 8, 1905.
[11] "Call me Alexander Graham Bell." (http:/ / www. fi. edu/ case_files/ bell/ agb. html) fi.edu. Retrieved: July 28, 2010.
[12] Bell typically signed his name in full on his correspondence.
[13] Groundwater 2005, p. 23.
[14] Bruce 1990, pp. 17–19.
[15] Bruce 1990, p. 16.
[16] Gray 2006, p. 8.
[17] Gray 2006, p. 9.
[18] Mackay 1997, p. 25.
[19] Petrie 1975, p. 7.
[20] Mackay 1997, p. 31.
[21] Gray 2006, p. 11.
[22] Town 1988, p. 7.
[23] Bruce 1990, p. 37.
[24] Shulman 2008, p. 49.
[25] Groundwater 2005, p. 25.
[26] Petrie 1975, pp. 7–9.
[27] Petrie 1975, p. 9.
[28] Groundwater 2005, p. 30.
[29] Shulman 2008, p. 46.
[30] MacKenzie 2003, p. 41.
[31] Groundwater 2005, p. 31.
[32] Shulman 2008, pp. 46–48.
[33] Micklos 2006, p. 8.
[34] Bruce 1990, p. 45.
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[35] Bruce 1990, pp. 67–68.
[36] The family pet was given to his brother's family.
[37] Bruce 1990, p. 68.
[38] Groundwater 2005, p. 33.
[39] Mackay 1997, p. 50.
[40] Petrie 1975, p. 10.
[41] Mackay 1997, p. 61.
[42] The estate, dating from 1858, is in the present day located at 94 Tutela Heights Road, Brantford, and is now known as the "Bell Homestead",
and formally as the Bell Homestead National Historic Site of Canada. It received its historical designation from the Government of Canada on
1 June 1996.Canadian Register of Historic Places. Canada's Historic Places: Bell Homestead National Historic Site of Canada (http:/ / www.
historicplaces. ca/ en/ rep-reg/ place-lieu. aspx?id=12773& pid=0), Canadian Register of Historic Places, Parks Canada website, which in turn
cites:
• Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Minutes, May 1934 & June 1996. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
[43] Wing 1980, p. 10.
[44] Groundwater 2005, p. 34.
[45] Mackay 1997, p. 62.
[46] Bell would later write that he had come to Canada a "dying man".
[47] Groundwater 2005, p. 35.
[48] Bell was thrilled at his recognition by the Six Nations Reserve and throughout his life would launch into a Mohawk war dance when he was
excited.
[49] Bruce 1990, p. 74.
[50] Town 1988, p. 12.
[51] Alexander Graham Bell 1979, p. 8.
[52] In later years, Bell described the invention of the telephone and linked it to his "dreaming place".
[53] Groundwater 2005, p. 39.
[54] Petrina 1975, p. 14.
[55] Petrel 1975, p. 15.
[56] Town 1988, pp. 12–13.
[57] Petrie 1975, p. 17.
[58] Miller and Branson 2002, pp. 30–31, 152–53.
[59] Town 1988, p. 15.
[60] Town 1988, p. 16.
[61] Toward 1984, p. 1.
[62] Eber 1991, p. 43.
[63] Eber claimed that Mabel suffered scarlet fever in New York "...shortly before her fifth birthday...", however Toward provided a detailed
chronology of the event claiming "... shortly after their arrival in New York [in January 1863]", when Mabel would have been at least five
years and five weeks of age. Mabel's exact age when she became deaf would later play a part in the debate on the effectiveness of manual
versus oral education for deaf children, as children who are older at the onset of deafness retain greater vocalization skills and are thus more
successful in oral education programs. Some of the debate centred on whether Mabel had to relearn oral speech from scratch, or whether she
never lost it.
[64] Dunn 1990, p. 20.
[65] Quote: "Brantford is justified in calling herself 'The Telephone City' because the telephone originated there. It was invented in Brantford at
Tutela Heights in the summer of 1874."
[66] Matthews 1999, pp. 19–21.
[67] Matthews 1999, p. 21.
[68] "A History of Electrical Engineering." (http:/ / ieee. cincinnati. fuse. net/ reiman/ 03_2005. htm) ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net. Retrieved
December 29, 2009.
[69] Town 1988, p. 17.
[70] Evenson 2000, pp. 18–25.
[71] Hubbard's financial support to the research efforts fell far short of the funds needed, necessitating Bell to continue teaching while conducting
his experiments.Fitzgerald, Brian. Alexander Graham Bell: The BU Years (http:/ / www. bu. edu/ bridge/ archive/ 2001/ 09-14/ bell. html),
B.U. Bridge, 14 September 2001, Vol. V, No. 5. Retrieved 28 March 2010. Bell was so short of funds at times that he had to borrow money
from his own employee, Thomas Watson. The Bell Patent Association, composed of Hubbard, Sanders and Bell and which would become the
precursor of the Bell Telephone Company (and AT&T), would later assign an approximate 10% interest of its shares to Watson,Bruce 1990, p.
291 in lieu of salary and for his earlier financial support to Bell while they worked together creating their first functional telephone.
[72] Bruce 1990, pp. 158–159.
[73] US 174465 (http:/ / worldwide. espacenet. com/ textdoc?DB=EPODOC& IDX=US174465) Alexander Graham Bell: "Improvement in
Telegraphy" filed on February 14, 1876, granted on March 7, 1876.
[74] MacLeod 1999, pp. 12–13.
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[75] A copy of a draft of the patent application is shown, described as "probably the most valuable patent ever."
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[105] Tomas Farley also writes that "Nearly every scholar agrees that Bell and Watson were the first to transmit intelligible speech by electrical
means. Others transmitted a sound or a click or a buzz but our boys [Bell and Watson] were the first to transmit speech one could understand."
[106] Mackay 1997, p. 178.
[107] Parker 1995, p. 23.
[108] Many of the lawsuits became rancorous with Elisha Gray becoming particularly bitter over Bell's ascendancy in the telephone debate but
Alec refused to launch counter actions for libel.
[109] Eber 1982, p. 44.
[110] Dunn 1990, p. 28.
[111] Mackay 1997, p. 120.
[112] "Mrs. A.G. Bell Dies. Inspired Telephone. Deaf Girl's Romance With Distinguished Inventor Was Due to Her Affliction." New York Times,
January 4, 1923.
[113] "Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor Dies; Head of National Geographic, 90; Editor of Magazine 55 Years Introduced Photos, Increased Circulation
to 4.5 million." New York Times, February 5, 1966.
[114] Baddeck, Nova Scotia, February 4, 1964 (Canadian Press): Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, chairman of the board and former president of the
National Geographic Society and editor of the National Geographic from 1899 to 1954, died on the Cape Breton Island estate once owned by
his father-in-law, the inventor Alexander Graham Bell. He was 90 years old.
[115] "Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor Dead; Joined in Geographic's Treks; Married Professor's Son." New York Times, December 27, 1964.
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[116] Quote: "Washington, D.C., December 26, 1964: Mrs. Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, wife of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, chairman of the board of
the National Geographic Society, died this evening at her home in Bethesda, Maryland. She was 86 years old. Death was attributed to heart
disease and old age."
[117] "Mrs. David Fairchild, 82, Dead; Daughter of Bell, Phone Inventor." New York Times, September 25, 1962. Quote: Baddeck, Nova Scotia,
September 24, 1962 (The Canadian Press) Mrs. Marian Bell Fairchild of Miami, widow of David Fairchild, noted plant explorer, and daughter
of the telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell, died tonight at her summer home. She was 82 years old."
[118] Gray 2006, pp. 202–205.
[119] Bruce 1990, p. 90.
[120] Bruce 1990, pp. 471–472.
[121] Bruce 1990, pp. 297–99.
[122] Bethune 2009 p. 2.
[123] Bethune 2009, p. 92.
[124] Tulloch 2006, pp. 25–27.
[125] Under the direction of the Boston architects, Cabot, Everett and Mead, a Nova Scotia company, Rhodes, Curry and Company, carried out
the actual construction.
[126] MacLeod 1999, p. 22.
[127] Tulloch 2006, p. 42.
[128] Gray 2006, p. 219.
[129] Grosvenor and Wesson 1997, p. 107.
[130] Boileau 2004, p. 18.
[131] Boileau 2004, pp. 28–30.
[132] Boileau 2004, p. 30.
[133] Bell was inspired in part by Australian aeronautical engineer Lawrence Hargrave's work with man-carrying box kites.Technical Gazette,
New South Wales, 1924, p. 46. Hargrave declined to take patents on his inventions, similar to Bell's decision not to file patents on some of his
inventions. Bell also chose maroon-colored silk as it would show up clearly against the light-colored sky in his photographic studies.
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After Plans by Lieutenant Selfridge, Shown to Be Practicable by Flight Over Keuka Lake. Portion of Tail Gives Way, Bringing the Test to an
End. Views of an Expert. Hammondsport, New York, March 12, 1908.
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External links
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.
php?&id_nbr=7894)
• Alexander Graham Bell Institute at Cape Breton University (http://bell.cbu.ca/agbi_about.asp)
• Bell Homestead, National Historic Site (http://www.bellhomestead.on.ca/)
• Bell Telephone Memorial (http://www.telephonetribute.com/pdf/bell_memorial_booklet.pdf) erected in
honor both Bell and the Invention of the Telephone in Brantford, Ontario's Alexander Graham Bell Gardens
• Biography and photos (http://www.telecomhall.ca/tour/inventors/bell/index.htm) at the Canada's
Telecommunications Hall of Fame website (http://www.telecomhall.ca)
• Biographical video footage (http://www.telecomhall.ca/video/bell.wmv) at the Canada's Telecommunications
Hall of Fame website (http://www.telecomhall.ca)
• Appleton's Biography edited by Stanley L. Klos (http://virtualology.com/ALEXANDERGRAHAMBELL.
ORG/)
• Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Museum located in Baddeck, Nova Scotia containing many of
Bell's experiments and models (http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/grahambell/index_e.asp)
• Alexander Graham Bell family papers Online version at the Library of Congress (http://memory.loc.gov/
ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html) comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images)
containing correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting
Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the world's first telephone company, his family life, his
interest in the education of the deaf and his aeronautical and other scientific works
• Bell's path to the invention of the telephone (http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/albell/homepage.html)
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• Bell's speech before the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on August 27, 1880,
presenting the [[Photophone (http://histv2.free.fr/bell/bell1.htm)], very clear description; published as "On the
Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light" in the American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, vol. XX, No.
118, October 1880, pp. 305–324 and as "Selenium and the Photophone" in Nature, September 1880]
• AlexanderBell.com – Telecom pioneer (http://www.alexanderbell.com/)
• Alexander Graham Bell Biographical information, science resources and information on 1912 Franklin Award for
'electrical transmission of articulate speech' at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit (http://fi.edu/
case_files/bell/)
• Alexander Graham Bell gravesite (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=639385&
GRid=2125&)
• Alexander Graham Bell: Biography and Much More from Answers.com Excellent summary of Alexander
Graham Bell's life, has many useful dates for important parts of his life (http://www.answers.com/topic/
alexander-graham-bell)
• Bell family tree (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/agbtree.html)
• American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Alexander Graham Bell – Lab notebook I, pp. 40–41 (image 22)
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr002.html)
• Scientists' profile: Alexander Graham Bell (http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=120)
•
"Bell, Alexander Graham". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
• Works by or about Alexander Graham Bell (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-113947) in libraries
(WorldCat catalog)
• Basilio Catania, 2003 The United States Government vs. Alexander Graham Bell. An important acknowledgment
for Antonio Meucci (http://www.esanet.it/chez_basilio/us_bell.htm)
• (Italian) Timeline for Antonio Meucci (http://www.aei.it/ita/museo/mam_graf.html)
Patents
• Complete list (http://www.mall-usa.com/uspat/bell/) of Bell patents
U.S. patent images in TIFF format
• U.S. Patent 161,739 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=161739) Improvement in Transmitters and
Receivers for Electric Telegraphs, filed March 1875, issued April 1875 (multiplexing signals on a single wire)
• U.S. Patent 174,465 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=174465) Improvement in Telegraphy, filed February
14, 1876, issued March 7, 1876 (Bell's first telephone patent)
• U.S. Patent 178,399 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=178399) Improvement in Telephonic Telegraph
Receivers, filed April 1876, issued June 1876
• U.S. Patent 181,553 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=181553) Improvement in Generating Electric
Currents (using rotating permanent magnets), filed August 1876, issued August 1876
• U.S. Patent 186,787 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=186787) Electric Telegraphy (permanent magnet
receiver), filed January 15, 1877, issued January 30, 1877
• U.S. Patent 235,199 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=235199) Apparatus for Signalling and
Communicating, called Photophone, filed August 1880, issued December 1880
• U.S. Patent 757,012 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=757012) Aerial Vehicle, filed June 1903, issued
April 1904
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Alexander Graham Bell
Movie biographies
• Animated Hero Classics: Alexander Graham Bell (1995) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0956089/) at the
Internet Movie Database
• The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, 1939 film reformatted for VCR tape, Don Ameche playing Bell, (1966)
ISBN 0-7939-1251-2
• Biography — Alexander Graham Bell, A&E DVD biography based on historical footage and still pictures of Bell,
(2005)
• The Sound and the Silence (1992) (TV) with John Bach as Alexander Graham Bell; Canada / New Zealand /
Ireland Sound and the Silence (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106241/) ASIN: B0009K7RUW
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