Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-05
BELL, INVENTOR
OF PHONE, DEAD
SuCcumbS at His Home in Nova
Scotia at the Age of
rs Years.
AIDED development OF PLANE
Formed Aerial Experiment Station in
1oo7-Helped to Invent Speed Boat
During the War-Maintained
Private Museum.

Sydney, N S, Aug. 3.-AlexandeI
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone,
Is dead at his home at Baddeck.
Doctor Bells laboratories have been
located since 1886 near Baddeck, Cape
Breton. There for many years he con-
Quoted research and experiment in
aerial lOcOmOtiOn and other scientific
subjects and maintained his private
museum showing the development of
his greatest inventions.
He encouraged Samuel P. Langley
TO invent the first flying machine, and
declared after witnessing its flight at
QuanticO, Va. in 1896, that the age
OF the airplane was at hand although
Longley'S machine was destroyed.
Invented Fast Boat.
Doctor Bell formed in 1907 the
Aerial Experiment association with
headquarters in Cape Breton, and its
object to learn TO fly. 1t is claimed
that it was with the machines devel-
Oped by that association that the first
really successful public flights of air
planes in America were made.
In the World war Doctor Bell and
F. w. Baldwin invented a boat called
hydrOdrOme. which developed a
speed of 40 miles an hour and was
called the fastest n The world.
1t used an airpiane propeller and
carried beneath it a series of planes
which lifted its main oody above the
water as its speed increased. 1t was
intended for submarine chasing anC
scouting. but the armistice prevented
its use for those purposes.
Called Most Valuable Patent.
Mr.. Bell lived to see experiments
which he began with a dead mans eal
less than fifty years ago result in s
means of communication for million!
Of long distance telephone converse
tons daily in all parts of the world
The possibility of talking over a wire
| ridiculed then as dream by aImOs
! everybody except Bell. became durin;
| his lifetime a reality commonplace ant
! marvellous
The Bell basic patent, known in tn
| records at Washington as No. 17.446
| has been called the most valuable
| single patent ever issued in the his
| tory of invention. There are tOda,
| over 13,OOOO0O telephone instrument
| through which billions of telephon
| conversations are carried on eacl
| year.
Means of communication had been
hobby in the Bell family long befor
the inventor of the telephone wa
| born. Two generations back. Alexan
der Bell became noted for inventing
system for overcoming stammerin
| speech, while his son, Alexander
father of the inventor of the telephone
perfected system of visible speech.
With this heritage. the son, born i
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1S47, under
took similar experiments while yet
| lad. He constructed an artificif
skull of gutta-percha and Indian rut
Der that would pronounce severe
words in weird tones, when blown int
by a hand bellows. At the ago G
sixteen he became, like his father
teacher of elOcutiOn, and an instructo
Of deaf mutes.
Opens School in Boston.
Bell reached a crisis in his life 9
the age of twenty-five, when he wa
threatened with tuberculosis. TIL
white plague caused the death of hi
two brothers and the Bell family m
grated to BrantfOrd Can.
A meeting at that time with s.
Charles WheatstOne, the English il
ventOr of the telegraph, fired the yOun
elocutiOnist with ambition to invent
musical, or multiple, telegraph, whiC
eventually turned out to be a tel
phone.
! His father while giving a lecture
Boston, proudly mentioned the son
| success in teaching London de;
mutes. This led the Boston board
education to offer the younger Be
$500 to introduce his system in Il
! newly opened school for deaf mute
He was then twenty-fOur years oil
and instantly became an education
sensation Of the day. He was a
pointed a professor in Boston unive
sity, and opened his instantly success
full school of Vocal Physiology"