The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-05
A Human Interest Story
About One Of the Worlds
Greatest Inventors, Told
by Frank G.. Carpenter
MIDNIGHT VISIT TO DIR.
BELL IN HIS LIBRARY

His Hundred Volumes of Rec
orded Notes of Experiments and
DiscOveries-Bell'S Habits OF
Thought-He Works All Night
and Sleeps in the Daytime-Hls
Housenoat Retreat at BaddeCk-
He Tells Of His Audience With
the Emperor of .Japan-Says
That Distilled Water Is a Cure
for Rheumatism, EtC.-An Intel
lectual Dynamo, Moved by Per
petual Motion-How One Big
Man Keeps Fit.
copyrighted, 1913. by Frank G. Car
penter.)
WASHINGTON. D. c.
I want to tell you something about
The intellectual methods Of one of the
~reatest men OF all times, to give you
. peep, as it were, into that wonderful
mine which, as far as human speech
Is concerned, has annihilated distance
Ind has brought the hundreds Of mil
uOIlS OI tHc III IaCC uIouti " SoI.
refer to DR.. Alexander Graham Bell,
whose invention Of the telephone has
wrapped a network OF quivering iron
aerves about the globe and brought
mems souls together.
The actions Of DR.. Bells mind that
eliminated In the telephone were
completed more than n generation
lgo. That invention was patented in
1876. and the concept then brought
Orth will continue to work and grow
" long As time shall last.
Ever since then the same mind has
ieen working along inventive and sci
intiflc lines. 1t has created many new
hings which are known and has pro.
luced many others which will come tG
SIGHT when it's wonderful records arr
published. In 1888 DR.. Bell was n
IL the prime factors In the creation
the graphOphone. A little later OF
he organized the movement for tn
teaching Of speech to the deaf alon.
he lines OF visible speech, invented b.
His father, DR.. Alexander Melville Bel
ind to a certain extent those Of hi
.minent grandfather, Alexander Bel
Who was an authority on phonetic
md defective speech.
Later still DR.. Bell took up the in
resignation of matters relating t
lerial flight, bringing forth new basi
principles of construction which hav
been Of great value to aviation. /
addition he has made investigation
and discoveries along many othe
lines. his work concerning which ha
never been published. His mind. ]
short, is an intellectual dynamo drive
1t an enormous voltage by what seen
to he perpetual motion.
rave seen some of the first wor1
lngs OF this mind in a model whic
Alexander Graham Bell made when
boy. Of a wax and rubber moutl
which woul speak n pronounce tt
word Mamma" he was working
IN invention Of multipleX telegraph
with wires attuned to the octaves
the piano, when he discovered IL
telephone, and his menta activity h;
continued from that time until no
He Is now a a dozen years beyOl
that age at which DIR. Osler says {
working men should be chlorofOrme
but his mind today is brighter al
better than ever.
The records of a mind like this a
Of inestImable value. DR.. Bell beg;
70 make them when he was invent,
the telephone. and it was the dat
records he had kept which enabl
him to establish beyond doubt his o
ority OF invention. This showed h
the value of such records. and fro
then until now his mind has, as
were. been before the moving pictr
camera of his note books, and it's {
lions are filed away for the future.
has kept records and notes of evel
thing that he has thought or exp,
lmented upon since that time, a
these notes now fill several hundl
volumes, giving the complete sto
as it were, Of his intellectual life.
j spent a great part of last mis-
with DR.. Bell in his library, and d
ing my stay took a look at tn,
books. They are full of %photograp
diagrams. sketches and figures. So
IF the work has been taken down
mis- secretary and written out by ty
writer from these stenographic no
but there are thousands of pages
the fine penmanship of DR.. Bell h
self.
Within the past five years the IN
uecript volumes have been conden
v Into a series of digests, which n
been issued from time 10 time i
nouritt anal which DIR