Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish
US inventor - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Bell Telephone Company | 1877 |
US inventor - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Bell Telephone Company | 1877 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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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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