Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-08-04
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
19o7-4eIped to Invent Speed Boat
During the War-Maintained
Private Museum.

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Sydney, N. s., Aug. Alexander
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
LongIey'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 20 fly. 1t is claimed
that 1t 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
a hydrodrome. which developed a
speed of 40 miles an hour and was
called the fastest in the world.
II used an airplane propeller and
carried beneath it series of planes
which lifted its main oody above the
water as its speed increased. 1t was
intended for submarine chasing and
scouting, but the armistice prevented
Its use for those purposes.
Called Most Valuable Patent.
Mr.. Bell lived to see experiments
which he began with dead mans ear
less than nifty years age result in a
means of communication for millions
Of long distance telephone conversa-
tfons daily in all parts of the world.
The possibility of talking over a wire.
ridiculed then as a dream by almost
everybody except Belk became during
his lifetime a reality commonplace and
marvellous.
The Bell basic patent, known in the
records at Washington as No. II. 446.
has been, called the most valuable
single patent ever issued in the his
tory of invention. There are today
over 1S,000000 telephone instruments
through which billions Of telephone
conversations are carried on each
year.
Means of communication had been a
hobby in the Bell family long before
the inventor of the telephone was
born. Two generations back. Alexan-
der Bell became noted for inventing a
system for overcoming stammerlng
speech, while his son, Alexander,
father of the inventor of the telephone.
perfected a system Of visible speech.
With this heritage the son, born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1S47, under.
took similar experiments while yet a
lad He constructed an artificial
skull of gutta-percha and Indian rub
Der that would pronounce several
words in weird tones. when blown into
by hand bellows. AT the age of
sixteen he became, like his father, a
teacher of elocution. and an instructor
of deaf mutes
opens School in Boston.
Bell reached a crisis in his life at
the age of twenty-five, when he was
threatened with tuberculosis. The
white plague caused the death of his
two brothers and the Bell family mi
grated to Brantford, Can.
A meeting at that time with Sir
Charles Wheatstone, the English in.
vertor of the telegraph, fred the young
elocutionist with ambition to invent
musical, or multiple, telegraph. which
eventually turned out to be a tele-
phone.
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 the younger Bell
$500 to introduce his system in the
newly opened school for deaf mutes
He was then twenty-four years old
and instantly became an educational
sensation of the day He was an
pointed a professor in Boston unlver.
slty, and opened his instantly success