Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of SolitudeA 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 |
Contents
Philadelphia 1846 | 3 |
BEFORE THE TELEPHONE | 7 |
The Inheritance | 9 |
Aleck in Edinburgh | 17 |
Pygmalion in Harrington Square | 29 |
The Young Teacher | 35 |
Matters of Life and Death | 49 |
Partings | 58 |
Family Fame and Foreign Parts | 236 |
The Witness | 258 |
Disconnected | 281 |
AFTER THE TELEPHONE | 289 |
The Uses of Prosperity | 291 |
The Private World of Alexander Graham Bell | 307 |
And He Will Go On Inventing | 333 |
The Realm of the Birds | 355 |
THE TELEPHONE | 71 |
Brantford and Boston | 73 |
Teacher of the Deaf | 80 |
The Multiple Telegraph | 90 |
Professor Bell and Miss Hubbard | 97 |
Inventor and Scientist | 104 |
The Telephone Is Conceived | 120 |
Allies and Adversaries | 125 |
The Telephone Is Born | 143 |
Love and Locksmiths | 151 |
Patent Number 174465 | 159 |
The Telephone Speaks | 177 |
Philadelphia 1876 | 188 |
The Word Travels | 199 |
Circuits and Connections | 215 |
Scientific Circles | 369 |
The Barricades of Deafness | 379 |
A Hand for Helen Keller | 397 |
The Chain of Generations | 409 |
Castles in the Air | 430 |
Portrait of a Patriarch | 455 |
Remembrance | 477 |
Of Striving and Silence | 485 |
The Sounding Name | 493 |
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Picture Credits | 550 |
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