Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-09
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Alexander Graham Bell is dead. 4 He
died at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Aug. 2,
at the age of %. 3 z
alexander Graham Bell was born in
Edinburgh, March g. 1s47. He was
graduated from several European uni
persities and came to Canada in 1870,
leaving there. and settling i'll Boston
one year later. 81
he began with a dead mans ear less
than so years ago result in a means
of communication for millions Of long
distance telephone conversations daily
in all parts Of the world. The posi-
bility OF talking over a wire, ridiculed
then as a dream by almost everybody
except Bell, became during his life
time a reality commonplace and mar
vellOus. - - y E
The Bell basic patent, known in the
records at Washington as No ia, 465,
has been called the most valuable sin
gle patent ever issued in the whole
history of invention There are today
over 100000 telephone instruments,
through which billions of telephone
conversations are carried on each year.
When but lad he conducted expert
ments for the transmission Of speech.
He constructed an artificial skull of
gutta-percha and Indian rubber: that
would pronounce several words in
weird tone, when blown into by a
hand bellows. At the age of Is he
became, like his father, teacher Of elo-
cutiOn,' and an instructor Of deaf
mutes. x -. $50 50. 5.5 3s. s5s
AS he worked he began to see the
possibility of conveying speech over an
electrically charged wire the sstele-
phone. He used a dead mans ear for
a transmitter. s
If ] can make deaf mute talk .
Bell had declared, Il can make iron
talk -
His first success came while testing
his instruments in his new quarters
in Boston. Thomas A. Watson, Bells
assistant, had struck clock spring
at one end of the WIRE and Bell was
electrified to hear the sound in an
other room. For 40 weeks the instru-
ment struggled as it were, for human
speech. Then, on March 10, 1876,
Watson became almost insane with
JOY when he heard over the wire
Bells voice saying: "Mr Watson, come
here. want you" ss%-s,.
To the world at large, it is the ven
cradle inventor Of the telephone who
has passed on. To a much smaller
group, it is beloved educator, a
teacher Of the most difficult pupils III
the world who has left#the sphere OF
his activities. sss+ Ey rs
DR.. Bell, whose labors in science and
invention brought him fame and for.
tune, did not cease his benefits to hui
manity with the invention Of the tele.
phone. Before that epoch making in.
vention and during all his long life
he has been teacher of the deaf and
dumb, student Of means to ENABLE
the dumb to learn to speak, and the
deaf to learn to- hear either through
instruments or by lip-reading.
The whole world talks by telephone
| nor gives thought to the man whose
genius made it possible. But no deaf
mute learns to Communicate with his
fellows, nos dumb person, learns to
speak, but pays mental tribute OF
| grateful appreciation to the humani.
tartan, scientist, inventor, teacher and
educator who spent his life in the
amelioration Of their misfo fortunes, and
on whose teachings the whole modern
science Of speech taught to the speech:
less may be said to rest. sssS55s