The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-02
! aaeEaI Months Of Failing
NVENTED TELEPHONE

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life 81 Famous Man Reads
20 e Novel Of Poor and Am
bilious Inventor.
sssSYDNEY. S. J. Aug. 2-Dr.
Mexander Graham Bell, inventor
sSsDfsthes teleph one, edied at 2 O'Clock
this morning at Benin Brheagh
estatesnear Baddeck.
Althoughs the Inventor had been
Failing health for several
The had not been confined
stoybeds and the end was uneXpect-
led Late yesterday afternoon,
sshoweYer.s his condition became
sssssrfous and Doctor Kerr OF Wash
cousin of Mrs. Bell, a
hotsea guest, and "a Sydney physi-
cfanattended him.
with ii Ben; when he died
were Mrs. Bell, a daughter. Mrs.
Hubbard Fairohild. and
sofsEWashingt on. The inventor
leaves another daughter, Mrs.
EliZas Groevnor, wife of a
magazine editor.
sssF,uneralS p1ans had not been
compI eted this morning, but it
WAS though burial would be in
lexander Graham Bell lived to
seaSexperimentst which he began
stWitfi a dead man's ear less than
years ago result in means Of
communtcationfo for millions of long
3 dis ance telephone conversations
daily in allsparts Of the world. The
possfbilityi Of talking over wire,
rIdiculed then as a dream by al
ostNeyerybody except Bell, be-
came duringSh his lifetime a reality
commonplace and marvellous.
TheSBells patent, known in
i fheSrecordsSa at Washington as No.
f1z4465shasa been called the most val
nableN single patent ever issued in
s@the whole history of invention.
Theresare todayaover thirteen mil
phonesinstruments through
which billions of telephone CONVEX
Sssations are carried on each year.
Rich Heritage
Means 81 decentralization had been
zaashobbysins the Bell family long be-
fore the Inventor Of the telephone
YVES born. Two generations back,
Alexende err Bell became noted for
ISystem5 for over coming
ssstammerings speech, while. his son,
sAIexander3& Bell, father of
StheginVentor of the telephone. per-
icted la systemaof visible speech.
With this heritage, the son, born
fSfnA Edinburg, Scotland, in 1S47 I'M
dertook similar experiments while
TIL sa lad. He constructed an ar
u tfficia1 skull of guttapercha and
IndiaA ubber thatwould pronounce
severaI words in weird tones.
when blown into by a hand bellows.
The age OF sixteen he became,
Ike his father, a teacher of elocu-
sscutfons and an instructor of leaf
Ssnutes:
Bell reached a crisis in his life
mt the age of %, when he was
Threatened with tuberculosis. The
white plague caused the death of
hisg tWobsr others and the Bell fam
siIynigrated to Brantford, Canada.
meeting at that time with Sir
Ehar1es the English
SsinYentora Of the telegraph, fired the
young selocntionistw with am bition to
Invent musical, or multiple, te1e-
graph viii CHI eventually turned out
to beNas telephone.
His fatherswhile giving lecture
sins Boston, proudly mentioned the
:ssonss success in teaching London
sdeafmutes.T This led the Boston
board 4 of Education to offer the
$500 to introduce his
b system in the newly opened school
i@for deaf smutes- He was then "a
and instantly became the
.&sedncationa1 sensation of the day.
IegGwasyappo1nted a professor in
University; and opened his
instantlys successful School of Vo-
cal Physio1ogy.
But tea ching interferred with
and he soon gave up
all sbut3two pupil. One Of these was
mabel Hubbard of wealthy fam
sfIys She had lost her hearing and
speech nSansattac of scarlet fever.
while a baby. It was she who later
Became Bells wife
Worked in Cellar
Bell spent the following three
work in cellar in
salem, Mass. His money needs
bySGardiner G. Hubbard,
This future sfather-in-law, and Thorn
SSasN Sanders, the owner of the cell
SlarsRAss hegworked he began to see
Is thsSpOssib1Iity Of conveying speech
rsanSe1ectrfcally charged wire
the telephone. He used a dead
ssearSforg q transmftter
can a deaf mute talk
declared. II can make iron
His first success came while test
& ngshissinstuments in his new quar-
stsrs insBosto Thomas a. Watson,
had struck clock
Spring atone end Of the wire, and
was electrified to hear the
sound room. For forty
sStheinsHumentist struggled, as
sEita were for speech. Then on
S%Marchl0, 1876, Watson became al,
most ilsane8 with SOY when he
heard oVer the wire Bells voice