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Heroes of the Telegraph
·
John Munro
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CHAPTER
VIII.
GRAHAM
BELL.
The
first
to
produce
a
practicable
speaking
telephone
was
Alexander
Graham
Bell.
He
was
born
at
Edinburgh
on
March
1,
1847,
and
comes
of
a
family
associated
with
the
teaching
of
elocution.
His
grandfather
in
London,
his
uncle
in
Dublin,
and
his
father,
Mr.
Andrew
Melville
Bell,
in
Edinburgh,
were
all
professed
elocutionists.
The
latter
has
published
a
variety
of
works
on
the
subject,
several
of
which
are
well
known,
especially
his
treatise
on
Visible
Speech,
which
appeared
in
Edinburgh
in
1868.
In
this
he
explains
his
ingenious
method
of
instructing
deaf
mutes,
by
means
of
their
eyesight,
how
to
articulate
words,
and
also
how
to
read
what
other
persons
are
saying
by
the
motions
of
their
lips.
Graham
Bell,
his
distinguished
son,
was
educated
at
the
high
school
of
Edinburgh,
and
subsequently
at
Warzburg,
in
Germany,
where
he
obtained
the
degree
of
Ph.D.
(Doctor
of
Philosophy).
While
still
in
Scotland
he
is
said
to
have
turned
his
attention
to
the
science
of
acoustics,
with
a
view
to
ameliorate
the
deafness
of
his
mother.
In
1873
he
accompanied
his
father
to
Montreal,
in
Canada,
where
he
was
employed
in
teaching
the
system
of
visible
speech.
The
elder
Bell
was
invited
to
introduce
it
into
a
large
day-school
for
mutes
at
Boston,
but
he
declined
the
post
in
favour
of
his
son,
who
soon
became
famous
in
the
United
States
for
his
success
in
this
important
work.
He
published
more
than
one
treatise
on
the
subject
at
Washington,
and
it
is,
we
believe,
mainly
through
his
efforts
that
thousands
of
deaf
mutes
in
America
are
now
able
to
speak
almost,
if
not
quite,
as
well
as
those
who
are
able
to
hear.
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