Bell, Alexander Graham

1. An American inventor and scientist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, born in Scotland. He invented the telephone in 1876. Much of Bell's career was devoted to education of the deaf and to production of electronic devices to help them hear better.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, career of, 413.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, 328, 356-358, 373.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, tries to locate ball in Garfield's body, 358.

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Bell, Alexander Graham, parentage, 140;   youth, 141;   teaches elocution, 146;   experiments with speech, 151, 161;   meets Henry, 158;   invents telephone, 162;   at Centennial Exposition, 165;   demonstrates telephone, 170;   Bell Telephone Association, 178;   Bell-Western Union Settlement;   Bell and wireless telegraphy, 189;   Transcontinental telephone, 248.

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BELL, Alexander Graham, inventor of a well-known necessity and nuisance.

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