Top Items About Alexander Graham Bell

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TriviaAlexander Graham Bell vs Thomas Edison - telephone greetings

When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly...

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AnecdotesTelephone Game?

Alexander Graham Bell may have been thrilled to show Gardiner Green Hubbard (a founder of the National Geographic Society...

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AnecdotesGarfield`s Death (long)

Just two hundred days into his presidency, James Garfield was shot by a lawyer named Charles Guiteau who believed that...

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AnecdotesBell`s Last Words

As professor of vocal physiology at Boston University, Alexander Graham Bell taught many deaf students, including...

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AnecdotesPortrait of Alexander Graham Bell (long)

The artist J.W.L. Forster once visited Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh (Bell`s home on Cape Breton) to paint...

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AnecdotesCaveat Inventor

On February 14, 1876, Elisha Gray applied for a "caveat" announcing his intention to file a claim for a patent for...

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AnecdotesHydrofoil

The image of Alexander Graham Bell as the staid inventor of the telephone and dedicated teacher of the deaf may be in need...

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AnecdotesAlexander Graham Bell & the world's first telephone message

On the 10th of March, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first complete sentence ever heard via telephone: "Watson, please...

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