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Alexander Graham Bell
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About this work
Alexander Graham Bell is known around the world for his invention of the telephone in 1876. He created many other innovative devices, including a gigantic man-lifting kite, a balancing rudder for airplanes, and a telephone probe to detect bullets in the human body. He would often get up in the middle of the night to work out a new idea, and once took apart his wife’s new venetian blinds in order to construct a propeller. Bell was a lecturer on vocal physiology at Boston University and a founder of the American Association for the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
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Credit lineAlexander Graham Bell. 1922. Moses Wainer Dykaar, born Vilna, Russia 1884-died New York City 1933. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. CC0.
