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Reluctant Genius:

Alexander Graham Bell And the Passion for Invention
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Arcade Publ., 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 466 pages
"Famous while still young for inventing the telephone, which eventually secured his fortune as well as the admiration of the world, he ended his career in the chase to develop the airplane and as the inventor of a hydrofoil. When President Garfield was shot, Bell created a sonar probe to locate the assassin's bullet. He devised a precursor to the iron lung and worked on electric heating, sound communication with beams of light (the idea behind fiber optics), sheep breeding, and tetrahedral construction, now used in bridges and stadium roofs. A prominent figure in deaf education, he became a cherished mentor to Helen Keller, who dedicated her memoir to him. A celebrity in the glittering society of Gilded Age Washington, D.C., who preferred to hobnob with scientists, he also helped found and popularize National Geographic magazine."--BOOK JACKET.

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I really liked this book! It was a slow read, but very satisfying. A lot of the focus was on his wife and her influence on him. They wrote a lot of letters in those days so you can get a pretty ... Read full review

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Terrific insight into Bell's life, the race for the telecommunication advantage by competing companies in the US and Europe, and the fascinating story of how inventions spring from the mind of oddball ... Read full review

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About the author (2006)

Editor, journalist, and broadcaster Charlotte Gray was born in Sheffield, U.K. in 1948. She earned her M.A. from Oxford University and her honorary doctorate from Mount St. Vincent University in Nova Scotia. She moved to Canada in 1979. She is a contributing editor to Saturday Night Magazine, and a frequent commentator on the CBC and CTV. She is a regular contributor to the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Chatelaine, and Elm Street magazine. Her book Mrs. King: The Life & Times of Isabel Mackenzie King won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and Canadian Authors' /Birks Foundation Award for Biography. Another of her books, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Trail won the Canadian Booksellers Award for Non-fiction

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TitleReluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell And the Passion for Invention
AuthorCharlotte Gray
Editionillustrated
PublisherArcade Publ., 2006
ISBN1559708093, 9781559708098
Length466 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
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