Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he declared ... Melville now asked Wheatstone to tell them about it. Young Alec was clearly inspired by this visit. On returning home, he and ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among ...

Alexander Graham Bell. The name alone evokes ... And then there was his mother, Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, who was deaf—a fact that shaped young Bell’s fascination with sound.

Alexander Graham Bell hated few things more than summertime in Washington, D.C. He usually escaped to his estate in Nova Scotia, but one year obligations forced him to stay in the humid capital.