The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-08-03

I'LL |NVENlUR
Of TELEPHONE
DIR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
EXPIRES AT COUNTRY HOME
AT SYDNEY.
VIII he Buried as Sun Sets Friday on
spot Of His Own Choosing.
sydney, n S, Aug. AT sunset on
Friday on the crest OF Benin BreaGh
mountain the body OF Or. Alexander
Graham Bell, who died this morning
ut his summer home will lie buried.
In a spot chosen by the inventor Of
the telephone himself The grave Of
the venerable scientist. the immensely
of whose life work was atteSted by
scores of kilograms which came today
10 the Bell estate from the world
prominent figures, IL at point over
looking the town Of Baddeck. Cape Bre-
ton.
Or Bell was Is years old.
Sydney. y. S, Aug. 2.-Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell. inventor of the telephone,
died at 2 o'clock this morning at Rienn
Bhreagh. his estate near BaddeCk.
Although the inventor had been In
falling health for several months he
had not been confined to bed and the
end was unexpected. Late yesterday
afternoon, however, his condition be-
came serious and DR.. Kerr, OF Wash
guest and a Sydney physician attended
him. With Mr.. Bell when he died were
Mrs. Bell; daughter. Mrs. Marian Huh
bard Fairch!ld, and her husband, David
G. Fairchild. OF Washington, The In
ventor leaves another daughter, Mrs.
magazine editor.
Alexander Graham Bell lived TO sec
experiments which he began with
dead mans ear less than nifty years ago
result In a means Of communication for
millions OF long distance telephone con
versations daily In all parts OF the
world. The possibility OF taking over
a wire, ridiculed then as dream by
almost everybody except Bell. became
during his lifetime a reality common
place ana IDdTNelIOuS
Most Valuable Single Patent
The Bell basic patent. known in the
records at Washington as No. ia 46@
has been called the most valuable
single patent ever issued In the whole
history OF invention. There are today
over thirteen million telephone instru-
ments through which billions Of tcle-
phone conversations are carried on each
year.
Means OF communication had been a
hobby in the Bell family long before
the inventor OF tho telephone was born
Two generations back. Alexander Hcll
became noted for inventing a system
for overcoming stammeriRg speech
tone when blown into by hand bel
lows. Al the age Of sixteen he became
while his son, Alexander Melville Bell
father OF tho inventor OF the tele-
phone perfected system of visible
speech.
With this heritage. the son. born IN
Edinburgh. Scotland IN 1877 undertook
similar experiments while still lad
He constructed an artificial skull OF
gutta- percha and Indian rubber that
would pronounce several words in weird
like his father q teacher Of elocuton
and an instructor OF deaf mutes
Be reached n crisis in his life at the
age OF %. when he was threatened with
tuberculosis The white plague caused
tho death OF his two brothers and tho
Bell family migrated 70 Branford.
Canada
A meeting AZ that time with STR
Charles Wheatstone, the English In
ventor Of the telegraph. frcd tho young
elocutIonist with ambition to invent a
musical. or multiple. telegraph, which
eventually turned out to be tele-
phone
Boston made oHer.
His father while giving a lecture In
Boston. proudly mentioned the sons
success In teaching London deaf mutes.
This led the Boston Board Of Education
to OFFER young Rel $500 to introduce
his system in the newly opened school
for deaf mutes. He was then - years
old and instantly became the cduca-
tional sensation Of the day. He was
appointed a professor In Boston Uni
vers!ty, and opened his instantly rue
cessful School Of Vocal Physiology
But teaching tnterfered with his In
venting. and no soon gave up all but
two pupils. Ono of these was Man"I
Hubbard. Of n wealthy family. She
had lost her hearing and speech In an
attack Of scarlet Fever while hRby.
1t was she who later became Bells
wife.
Boil spent the following three years
In night work in a cellar in Salem
Mass. His money needs were met by
Gardiner G. Hubbard, his future father
in-law, and Thomas Sanders. the owner
Of tho cellar. AS he worked he began
TO SEQ the possibility Of conveying
speech over an electrically charged
wire-the telephone. He used lead
for tranSmltteT.
IF I can make n deaf mute talk
Bell had declared. II can mako iron
talk"
MIade IRON Talk.
His >Arst success came while testing
his Instruments in his new quarters In
Rostorl Thomas A Watson. Bells
assistant, had struck a clock spring at
one end Of the wire. and Dcll was cleo
trifed TO hear tho sound in another
room. For forty weeks tho instrument
strusEled "a It were, for human speech
Thrn on March II. 1876, Watson he--
came almost insane with JOY when no