Alexander Graham Bell

  • Scottish


US inventor - AsNotedIn

Notable Position Organization From To
Chief Electrician, owns 10 shares Bell Telephone Company 1877
Works about Alexander Graham Bell
  • Short Story: The Jaunt (Short Story), Victor Carune came back to his laboratory in a stumbling fever of excitement. He thought he knew how Morse had felt, and Alexander Graham Bell, and Edison....
Themes with Alexander Graham Bell

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1876/05/10 At Bell's telephone exhibit at The Centennial Exposition, Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil listens to Alexander Bell reading Hamlet's Soliloquy. "My God, it talks!" - Emperor Pedro. Inventor Centennial Exposition
1877/07/11 Mabel Hubbard marries Alexander Bell at the Hubbard estate (lost) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alec's wedding present to his bride is 1,487 of his 1,497 shares in the newly formed Bell Telephone Company. Groom Hubbard Park Historic District Cambridge, MA Marriage of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and Alexander Graham Bell
1878/07/00 Alexander Graham Bell displays his telephone at the Exposition Universelle. Inventor 1878 Exposition Universelle
1881/07/26 Alex Bell uses a metal detector of his own invention to try find the bullet in Garfield. He was unsuccessful due, in part, to interference from Garfield's metal bed and Dr D Willard Bliss insistence of only examining the President's right side. Inventor The White House Washington, DC Assassination of James Garfield
1881/08/02 After Bell had made adjustments to his device, testing it on another Civil War veteran and then a side of beef and a bag of cotton he'd hidden bullets in, he reexamines Garfield's right side at the White House. Inventor Assassination of James Garfield
1882/00/00 Bell family home 1882-1889 Home Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion Washington, DC
1885/00/00 Alexander Bell moves his laboratory to carriage house behind 1527 35th St. Work Volta Laboratory and Bureau Washington, DC
1886/00/00 Kate Keller seeks Dr Bell's help for Helen after recalling Dr Howe's work with deaf children at Perkins. She had read about Dr Howe teaching Laura Bridgman in 'American Notes'. Dr Bell says Helen could be helped at Perkins. Consultant American Notes Perkins School for the Blind Watertown
1887/01/24 Ernest W Bowditch writes a note to Alexander Graham Bell thanking him for helping his stuttering . Specialist
1893/00/00 Volta Bureau built under the direction of Alexander Graham Bell to serve as a center of information for deaf and hard of hearing persons. Work Volta Laboratory and Bureau Washington, DC
1904/01/07 Mabel and her husband, Alexander Graham Bell, depart Genoa, Italy, escorting James Smithson's remains to Washington, DC. Escort Genoa Liguria
1904/01/20 Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel, escorting Smithson's remains, arrived in Washington, DC. Escort Smithsonian Institution Building Washington, DC
1907/00/00 Alexander Graham Bell inherits the family summer home. Home Bell House Colonial Beach
1922/08/22 Alexander Bell dies at his estate in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada. Died Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada Baddeck,CA
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