The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-03
DY FRANK C.. CARPENTER.
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( WANT to tell you something about
the Intellectual methods of one of
- the greatest men of all times. TO
give you peep as it were. into that
wonderful mind which, AS far ns human
speech is concerned. has annihilatcd
distance and has brought the hundreds
Of millions of tho human race mouth TO
ear l refer TO Dr Alexander Graham
Hell, whose Invention of the telephone
has wrapped network Of quiverinG
iron nerves about the globe and
brought mems souls together.
The actions OF DR.. Bell's mind that
eliminated in the telephone were com
pleted moro than a generation ago.
That invention was patented in 1876.
and the concept then brought forth
VIII continue 10 work and grow as
long az time shall last
Ever since then the same mind has
been working along inventive and
scientific lines. i has created many
new things which are known, and has
produced others which win come to
light when its wonderful records are
Published. III 1883 Or. Bell was one
q: the prime factors In the creation OF
the sr4phphonc \ LITTLE later on he or
gained Tie movement Tor the teaching
a. speech 70 The deaf along the lines
OF visible speech, invented by his
father, Or Alexander Melville Bell and
"a a certain extent those OF his eimi-
nent grandfather, Alexander Bell. who
"aa an authority on phonetics and de
fectve speech
Later stn pr. Bell took up the in
vestigation @. matters relating to
aerial Tight bringing forth new basic
principles OF construction which have
been Of great value to aviation. In ad e
cltlOn, he has MADE Investigations and
discoveries along many other lines. his
WORK concerning which has never been
Published His mind in snort. is an in
tellec;ual dynamo, driven at an enor-
nous voltage BY what seems to he per
Ictua! motion!
nave seen some of the FIRST work
ines Of this mind in a model which
alexander Graham Bell made when a
boy OF wax ana rubber mouth.
wn-cE would speak and pronounce the
word Mamma" He was working at
~ invention cf multipleX telcgraphy
with vines attuned TO the octnves OF
the piano. when he discovered the tele
phone, and MS mental activity has con-
tiuued from that time until now. He
Is now a nalf dozen years beyond tina,
age 80 which Dr. Osler says all work
ingmcn should be chloroformed. but
hs mind today s brighter and better
Than ever
the RECORDS OF mind like this ar,
Of Incsuuanle value Dr Bcl bceaI
10 make them when he was nventine
The iciephoue, ana IL was the dutcc
iccurGi vi had Kept which enabled hin
u establish beyond doubt his priority
Of invention This showed him tn,
value Of such records, and from ther
antll now his mind has, as II were
been before the moving picture
camera Of his note books and It's &C
lions are Med .way for the future
He has kept records and notes oil
everything that be mas thought or ex-
rerinented upon since that time, anc
fhcse notes now al several hundreC
-f!umes giving The complete story. "a.
81 were, OF his intellectual life
spent great part 81 lass niph'
With Or. Beli in his library, and dur
ing my stay took look at thes,
books. They arc fun of photographs
diagrams. sketches and aguros Som,
Of the work has been taken down bS
his secretary and written out by type,
writer from these stenograph!c notcs
hut there arc thousands OF pages IT
the hno penmanship OF pr. Bell him
SELF
Within the past five years the man
uscript volumes have been condcuscc
into series OF disests which nav,
been issued from time TO time in
typewr:tton journal. which Or. Bel
calls The Benin Bhreagh Recorder