Alexander Graham Bell
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Author | : Charlotte Gray |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1628721405 |
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The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this magisterial reassessment based on thorough new research, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray reveals Bell’s wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. The child of a speech therapist and a deaf mother, and possessed of superbly acute hearing, Bell developed an early interest in sound. His understanding of how sound waves might relate to electrical waves enabled him to invent the “talking telegraph” be- fore his rivals, even as he undertook a tempestuous courtship of the woman who would become his wife and mainstay. In an intensely competitive age, Bell seemed to shun fame and fortune. Yet many of his innovations—electric heating, using light to transmit sound, electronic mail, composting toilets, the artificial lung—were far ahead of their time. His pioneering ideas about sound, flight, genetics, and even the engineering of complex structures such as stadium roofs still resonate today. This is an essential portrait of an American giant whose innovations revolutionized the modern world.
Author | : Edwin S. Grosvenor |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612309569 |
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". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times Book Review Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. And he examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.
Author | : Bonnie Bader |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0698159691 |
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Did you know that Bell's amazing invention--the telephone--stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a telephone in his study? Bell's story will fascinate young readers interested in the early history of modern technology!
Author | : Samuel Willard Crompton |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Inventors |
ISBN | : 1438104324 |
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Introduces the life and accomplishments of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor most widely known for developing the telephone.
Author | : Robert V. Bruce |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801496912 |
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A reprint of the 1973 biography of the American inventor. Divided into pre-telephone, telephone, and post-telephone sections, also covers his work with the Smithsonian, the deaf, the National Geographic Society, and Science magazine. Paper edition ($12.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Anita Garmon |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781426301896 |
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The life and career of Alexander Graham Bell, the man credited with inventing the telephone.
Author | : Ann Hood |
Publisher | : Grosset & Dunlap |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 044845730X |
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"Time travelers Maisie and Felix meet a young Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone). When the twins get separated from Alexander, they join the thousands of orphans in the streets of Victorian London"--
Author | : Christopher Beauchamp |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674744543 |
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Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a new perspective to this history, Invented by Law examines the legal battles that raged over Bell’s telephone patent, likely the most consequential patent right ever granted. To a surprising extent, Christopher Beauchamp shows, the telephone was as much a creation of American law as of scientific innovation. Beauchamp reconstructs the world of nineteenth-century patent law, replete with inventors, capitalists, and charlatans, where rival claimants and political maneuvering loomed large in the contests that erupted over new technologies. He challenges the popular myth of Bell as the telephone’s sole inventor, exposing that story’s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell’s lawyers. More than anyone else, it was the courts that anointed Bell father of the telephone, granting him a patent monopoly that decisively shaped the American telecommunications industry for a century to come. Beauchamp investigates the sources of Bell’s legal primacy in the United States, and looks across the Atlantic, to Britain, to consider how another legal system handled the same technology in very different ways. Exploring complex questions of ownership and legal power raised by the invention of important new technologies, Invented by Law recovers a forgotten history with wide relevance for today’s patent crisis.
Author | : Michael Schuman |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Inventors |
ISBN | : 9780766010963 |
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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish immigrant whose interest in helping the hearing-impaired led him to become not only an influential and respected teacher of the deaf, but the inventor of the telephone. This biography examines Bell's life from his roots in Scotland, through his immigration to America, to his teaching experiences and inventions, his success with the telephone, and his later work toward inventing a flying machine. It highlights Bell's personal life and dedication to helping people, showing how he used his talents to help such famous Americans as Helen Keller and President James A. Garfield, who had been shot by an assassin.
Author | : Jennifer Fandel |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0736896406 |
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"In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, and how his invention changed the way people communicate"--Provided by publisher.