Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-02
Alexdnde, Graham Bell,
If1uetitOr Of Telephone,
Died At Home Last Niqklt
Had Been Ailing For Some
Little Time; During Late
Years Had Interested Him
j: self In Science OF Avia-
hon; One Invention For
War Never Used.
Sydney, N. S. Aug. 2.-Dr. Alexan-
der Graham Bell, inventor of the tele-
phone, died in his home at Baddeck
last night.

Sydney, N. S. Aug. 2.-Dr. Alexan-
der Graham Bell, inventor of the tele-
phone, died in his home at Baddeck
last night.
Washington, Aug. 2.-News of the
death Of DR.. Alexander Graham Bell
at his summer place and laboratory
at Bad ieck, Nova Scotia. came as a
shock to the scientists many friends
In Washington although they knew
he had been failing for several
months. At a birthday luncheon some
months ago DR.. Bells friends were
surprised to see that he had become
feeble from age during the last year
and that his remarkable vigor was
fast disappearing.
David S. Fairchild. the agricultural
explorer, one of Dr. Bells sons-in-law,
telegraphed the Geographic society
that the famous inventor died at Q
o'clock thi, morning Of aenemia.
Mrs. Fairchild, who was Marion Bell
and Mrs. Bell, were with DR.. Bell
when the end came. DR.. Belrs other
daughter. Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor.
of Washington, is with her husband
in Brazil.
No funeral arrangements have been
announced, but 1t Is expected that DR..
Bells body will be brought to WASH
ington for burial.
: Washington, Aug. 2.-Prssident
Thayer of the merican Telephone and
Telegraph company on hearing Of Mr..
Bells death ordered all the subsidiary
corporations Of the Bell system
throughout the country to half mast
flags on their buildings.
Alexander Graham Bell inventor
and physicist, was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland. on tht third of March, 1847,
the son of Alexander Melville Bell,
famous educationafist. He was edu-,
Gated at the University Of Edinburgh
and the University of London, and
removed with his father to Canada in
1870. In 1872 he became professor Of
vocal physiolnsy Ia Boston university.
In 1876 be lxhibited an apparatua
IN the hetrans6ission Of sound by cleo
|trfcity, and this. invention, with i'm
provements5 ara modfhept ptions? consti-
ltates the modern tcpWNnercial tele-
/ phone He was the iiivAiitor alio of
the photoptone, an instrument, for
transmitting sound by. variation in a
beam Of light. and Of phpnosra phio
apparatus. Later, he interested rlltm-
self in the problem of mechanical
night. he pubi1shed many scientific
monographs. including memoir on
the formation of deaf variety in the
human race
Dr.. Bells laboratories have been
located since 1886 near Baddeck,
Cape Breton. There for many years
he conducted research and experiment
in aerial locomotion and other scien-
tific subjects and maintained his apri-
vate museum showing the develop
ment of his greatest Inventions, He
encouraged Samuel P. Langley to in
vest the first flying machine and de-
clared after witnessing its flight at
Quantico. Va, l., 1896, that the age
Of the airplane was at hand, although
IIa1angley's machine was destroyed
DR.. Bell formed in 1907 the Aerial
Experiment association with head
quarters at Cape Breton sEd It's OH
ject to learn to fly. 1t is claimed that
1t was the machines developed by that