The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-08-02
Death Claims
Great hauerat0r

Sydney. N. s., Aug. AT sunset
on Friday on the crest Of BeiIin
Breagh mountain. the body of Dr.a
Alexander Graham Bell. who died
this morning at his summer home.
will be buried in spot chosen by the
inventor of the telephone himself.
The grave Of the venerable scientist
the inmensity Of whose life work was
attested by scores Of kilograms which
came today to the Bell estate from the
worlds prominent figures, is at a
point overlooking the town OF Bad
deck, Cape Breton. The -, sweeping
vista from the mountaint,top,g ], 30 adj
nured by Mr.. Bell strecfles farsover
the Bras dor lake: sunset, chosen as
the moment when the body will be-
come forever part OF tho sturdy
hills, gilds the waters of the lake UNI
til they are really what their name
mcans-"the lake of the arm OF gold"
Alexander Graham Bell lived to see
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dead mans ear less than 60tyears ago
result in a means Of communication
for millions Of long distance telephone
conversations daily in all parts OF the
world. The possibility of talking
over a wire, ridiculed then as a dream
by almost everybody except Bell be-
came during his lifetime reality
commonplace and marveloHs.
The Bell basic patent, known in the
records at Washington as No. l74.-
465 has been called the most valuable
single patent ever issued in the whole
history of invention. There are to-
day over 100000 telephone instru-
| ments through which billions OF tele-
phone conversations are carried on
each year.
Bell spent three years in. night
| work in a cellar in Salem, Mass. His
money needs wc:c met ~ Gardiner G..
Hubbard, his future father-inlaw.
and Thomas Sanders. the owner of
the cellar. AS he worked he began
to see the possibility OF conveying
speech over an electrically charged
wire-the telephone. He used a dead
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"If I can make "a deaf mute talk"
Bell had declared. II 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 n clock
spring at one end of the wire. and Bell
was electrified TO hear the sound in
another room. For 40 weeks the IN
human speech. Then on March 10.
1876. Watson became almost insane
with JOY when he heard over the wire
Bells voice saying:
my. Watson, come here. want
YOU"
! On his goth birthday, Bell received
| his patent. 1t was 1T the Centennial
! exposition held at Philadelphia, two
| months later, where men of science
! the world over who had come to eN-
| anime and study the numerous inven-
! tions exhibited. saw Professor Bell
| give a practical demonstration OF the
| transmission Of. the human voice by
electricity.
= One of the curious things about the
! invention of the telephone is that Bell
/ knew almost nothing about electricity
when he started. He knew a great
deal about acoustics. though, and the
| formation OF the human organs of
/ speech and hearing. Bell was called
! to Washington once when he was in
| the slough of despond and took the
opportunity to call on Prof. Joseph
! Henry, who knew as much about cleo
! tricity and the telegraph as any man
, then alive. Henry told him he had
! the germ Of Il great invention.
But" said Bell, Il have not got
! the electrical knowledge that is ncccs-
sary."
Get it," said Henry.
Bell did get some of it-enough.
Had I known more about elcctri-
city and less about sound" he said
81 would never hay invented tho trlp-