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Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
Alexander Graham Bell
The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
New York 1997
Stron 304, format: 22x29 cm, papier kredowy
400 ilustracji, 25 kolorowych
Książka jest nowa
This volume is the first fully illustrated book about Alexander Graham Bell (1[zasłonięte]847-19) and the early years of the telephone—an invention that transformed the culture, social fabric, and economy of the United States and, eventually, the world. Hundreds of rare and previously unpublished images reveal early phone history, turn-of-the-century America, and the remarkable Bell family.
Readers will be fascinated to learn the story of the telephone's invention—a more dramatic race than most realize—in which eager young inventors competing for more efficient telegraphs succeeded in transmitting a recognizable human voice over wires. On March 7, 1876, Bell was awarded his first telephone patent—for "improvements in telegraphy." It would become the most valuable patent ever issued, after six hundred lawsuits were fought (and won) and the device was painstakingly perfected.
At the center of this book is Alexander Graham Bell himself, whose remarkably fertile imagination spawned a raft of inventions most of us have never associated with his name. Working in the United States and Canada, he devised the first practical phonograph, the metal detector, the hydrofoil, and the respirator. In addition, Bell and his associates conducted 1,200 pioneering experiments in aviation, achieving the first public airplane flight in the United States. Bell helped found the National Geographic Society and its distinguished magazine. Further, he was instrumental in bringing Montessori education to America, was involved in early civil rights efforts, and did seminal work in deaf education (he was responsible for Helen Keller meeting her teacher Annie Sullivan).
Created with unprecedented access to private materials—one of the coauthors is Bell's great-grandson— Alexander Graham Bell reveals the inventor as a man of warmth and human frailty, loved by his wife, children, and grandchildren. Published on the 150th anniversary of Bell's birth, and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Bruce, this book presents the man whose most famous invention made modern communication possible.
400 illustrations, including 25 plates in full color
Foreword by Robert V. Bruce 6
Acknowledgments 8
Chronology and Achievements of Alexander Graham Bell 12
1. Birth of an Inventor 14 Education and Experiments in Scotland
2. "I May Succeed" 34 Deaf Education and Telegraphy
3. "Mr. Bell, Do You Understand What I Say?" 50 Inventing and Patenting the Telephone
4. "One Good Invention" 68 The Bell Telephone
5. The Highest Incentive a Man Can Have 100 Photophone, Medical Research, Graphophone
6. The Bell Monopoly 120 Grouth of an Industry
7. "It Will All Be Up With Us!" 136 A Summer Retreat, Flying Machines
8. The Rise of the Independents 162 After the Monopoly
9. "The World And All That's In It" 184
10. The National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian, Travels
11. "To Get Into The Air" 204 Manned Flight
12. From Coast to Coast 234 Long-Distance Telephony Comes of Age
13. Life With Grandfather 248 The Late Years
14. "What the World Calls Failures" 276 The Golden Age
Bibliography 292
Index 296
Photograph Credits 304
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