Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-02

Alexander ,;raham Botl. VIII" was
horn in Edinhurgh. March 3. 1SiI. lived
to ,"r experiments whirh h" began with
dead ilanS "ar leSS ;hHn fifty years
ago r"'ult in Il means "i cnmmunica-
tiun for millions of long distance tcle-
ohonc conversations Gnilv in all parts
II fhn world. The possibility of talk
my over vine. ri!irulcd then as II
dream hy alm -, everybody except Bell l..
0"rnn,' }u in: his lifetime reality,
rrmmoV, "a @" and MAJ vc,ou~.
pr. Eri"y laboratories have been To-
Gated sire" INNG near Haddrck, Cape
Breton. Thcrr for many years hH con
Quoted r',plrrn end experiment in aerial
lurOmOtion and other scientific subjects
and maintained his private museum
showing the development Of his greatest
Inventions. He encouraged Samuel l..
Langley to invent the first flying ma
chine and declared after witnessing its
fight at Quantico. Va, in 1896. that
tho age of the airplane was at hand.
although Langley's machine was de-
strOycd.
DR.. Bell formed in 1907 the Aerial
Experiment Association. with head
quarters in Cape Breton and its OBJ
i"ct to learn to fly. 1t is claimed that
II was with the machines developed by
that asSociat.or that tho first really
successful public flights Of ajrplanes in
America W"r" made.
Invented Boat During War
In thn World War. DR.. Bell and +.
W. baldwin invented boa, ralIcl Il
hydr"drumr. wlich Developed n speed of
seventy mics an hour and was called
, tn" fastest in tn" world. II used an
airplun" propeller and carried beneath
, 1t series of planes which lifted -
main body ahov" the water aS its speed
increased II was intended for SUBJ
marine chasing and scouting. but the
armi>tice prevented its use for those
purposes.
Rolls first telephone patent. known
IN the records at Washington a. NO
~ 100 has been called rho most val 8
uabln singl" patent ever ISSUED in the
wh0ln history Uf invention. There are
today moro than 10000 900 telephone
Instruments through which billions o.
tcIophnm" conversations are carried OF
each year.
Means Of communication had hren Z
hobby in the Bell family long before th'
inventor uf tho telephone wn> horn. Tw,
generations back. Alexander Bel be-
rU!l.t tIiilfil LOT lIlNtI1Al, II system 10
overcoming Stnmmcring speech, Will
hi> son. Alexander M"lvill" Bell. fathe
Of the inventor of {" telephone, per
fectcd 4 system Of visible speech.
Experimental in BcyhOod
With this heritage. the son undcrtooI
similar experiments while still n lad
He constructed an artificial skull q
gutta -rcrrha and India rubber tha
would pronounce several words in weir
tones, when blown into 10y lpnd bel
lows. At the age Of sixteen h" became
like his father. teacher Of "lpcution
and an instructor OF deaf mut"s.
Bel reached n crisis in his life a
the age of twenty two. when lie WA
threatened with tuberculosis. Th
, white pl0gu" caused III" death of hi
two brothers and the Ro,l family mi
grated 70 Rrantford, Canada.
4 meeting at that umo with 81
Charles Whcatstone. III" English in
, ventor Of the telegraph, fired tn" youn
elocutionist with ambition 10 invent
musical. or multiple, telegraph. whic
eventually turned out - l." q telephone
Ti> father. while giving lecture !
Boston,. proudly m"nti"n"d the son
hurcc>- in teaching l."udom deaf mute
This jed the Boston Board Of Educa
zion to offer the Younger Bell $500
introduc" his system IN the n"wl
opened school for deaf mutes. He W.
then twenty four years old. and in
s,antIv became tho rducnt.onal Sonsa
tion of the day. II" was appointed
= professor in Boston University AZ
. opened his instantly encr"Ssful "Scho
.. OF Vocal Phystoogy.'
I Bu, reaching lntrrfcred with his ir