Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-02
Or. BELL, TELEPHONE
INVENTOR, DIES At
HIS SUMNER HOME
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The Bell basic patent. known in the
records At Washington a. No. lT4.&65
has been called tho most valuable
aingie patent ever issued In the whole
history OF invention. Thore arc today
millions Of telephone Instruments
through which billions Of telephone
conversations are carried on each
year.
Means OF communication had been
hobby In the Bell family long before
TIC inventor OF the telephone was born,
Two generations hack. Alexander Bell
became noted for inventing system
for overcoming stammerine speech,
while his ron. Alexander Melville
Bell, father Of tho inventor OF the
Visible speech.
With this heritage, tho son. born In
Edinburgh. Scotland, in lS%7. under
took similar experiments, while still q
lad. He constructed an artificial skull
of xutta- psrchA and india rubber tina,
would pronounce several words In
weird tones. when blown into by q
hand bellows. AZ the age OF 16 no be-
came. like his father, a teacher Of elo.
lcution. and an instructor OF dea,
mutes.
Bell reached n crisis In his life n
the age OF "a. when he was threatened
with tuberculosis. The white plagu,
caused the death OF his two brothers
and the Be-, family migrated t,
Brantford. Canada.
A meeting at that time with 81
Charles wheatstone. the English in
ventor of the telegraph. fired tn,
young elocutionist with ambition {,
. invent n musical. or multiple. tele
graph, which eventually turned on
10 he a telephone.
His father. while giving a lecture II
. Boston. proudly mentioned tho SON
success in teaching London deHf mutes
, This led the Boston Board OF Educa
ton TO offer the younger Bell $500 {
Introduce hts system In the newl
opened school for deaf mutes. He wa
then "a years old. and instantly be
came the educational sensation OF tn
day. He was appointed A professor 4
Boston University and opened his in
s,an;ly rucceesful school OF Nocf
Physiology"
But teaching interfered with his IN
venting. and he soon gave up all bu
two pupils. One OF these was Nab,
Hubbard. OF a wealthy family. She ha
lost her hearing and speech In an al
tack OF scarlet fever while a baby.
was she who later became Bells wifi
Bell spent tho following three year
e in night work in a cellar In Salen
J Mass. His money needs were met
! Gardiner G.. Hubbard. his future fatf
! er-in-law. and Thomas Sanders. II
, owner OF the cellar. AS he worked
( began TO see the possibility OF conve,
= ing speech over an electrically char,
: cd wire-the telephone. He used
\ dead mans ear for n trnnsmitter.
III I can mako n deaf mute talk
y Bell had declared. "I can make irI
= talk"
HE frSt success came while testir
}. his instruments In ME new quartz
In Boston. Thomas A Watson. Bel
assistant. had struck a clock eprir
= az one end OF the wire, and Bell W
electrified 20 hear the sound In a.
Other room. For forty wseke the !,
. s,rument struggled. a. It wore.
: human speech. Then on March J
. 1879. Watson became almost insa,
with 10Y when ne heard over tho wi
Bells voice eaying.
O mfr. Watson, come hsrs, WA
. you"
on his 2eth birthday. Bell receiv
i. his patent. II was a. the Centenn'
G EXPOSITION held at Philadelphia, Z
!. months later. where men OF enien
the world over who had come 70 c
anime and study the numerous
ventions exhibited. saw Prof. Bell Il
practical demonstration Of the trar
= mission OF the human voice by elt
tricity.
8 AS for Bell himself, he had T
planned 10 attend the Centennial al
Of He wac poor and he had re-organiz
y his classes in vocal speech. Towa
: the end OF June he went 10 the 81
er ton 20 see Miss Hubbard of for Pr
o. adelphia. There had been some Il
"a of HE going. but ne had put II qui
q, ly aside. She believed he was
50 ing; when they reached the stat
" she pleaded with him and was refus
'h AS he put her aboard the train and
w. moved out, leaving him on the pl
form. she burst out crying. Bell da.
:. ed after her and eprang aboard I
train, without baggage, ticket or a
or other triries
" The next Sunday afternoon Bell Y
promised an inspection OF his inv,
a. tion by the judges of exhibits. Ii y
n a hot day and the judges had seer
great deal. Some OF them We're
q. going home; one ieered. and there v
er general boredom. Then there
peared the blonde-bearded Emperor
- Brazil. with outstreiched hands
had heard some OF Bells lectu
Is on Boston: the deaf-mute work
o. pealed 10 him. His greeting made
stir. Bel made ready for his dem,
- stration. A wire had been strung
IS. length OF the room. Bell took
transmitter; Dom Pedro placed
receiver 10 his ear. He started
pr. amazed:
ny My God--it talks"
G. Afterward Lord Kelvin--plain Y
A. liam Thompson then-took up the
Is- eeiver. He was the engineer Of
or first Atlantic cable.
I He nodded hfs head solemnly as
OF got up.
is 1t does speak" he said emphatic
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