Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller, 29 August 1901



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Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller, 29 August 1901

Bell was, above all, a teacher of the deaf, and it was this very subject and the professional expertise he developed on the nature of sound that enabled him to invent the telephone. His friendship with the deaf and blind Helen Keller, a frequent guest with the Bell family, spilled over into science. Bell described what Annie Sullivan had done in teaching the young Helen to communicate by means of finger spelling as "not a miracle but a brilliantly successful experiment." Here Bell is "talking" to Helen Keller surrounded by family and friends. Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.





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|"Mr. Watson -- come here! |

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|Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) |

|Lab notebook, March 10, 1876 |

|The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers |

|Manuscript Division |

|Alexander Graham Bell's notebook entry of March 10, 1876, describes the first successful experiment with the telephone, during which he |

|spoke through the instrument to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in the next room. Bell writes, "I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] |

|the following sentence: 'Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you.' To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and understood |

|what I said." |

|Bell was born into a family deeply interested in speech and hearing. Both his father and grandfather were teachers of elocution, and |

|throughout his life Bell had a keen interest in teaching the deaf to speak. Both his mother and the woman he married--Mabel Hubbard, one |

|of his pupils--were deaf. |

|The Bell papers were donated to the Library of Congress by his heirs on June 2, 1975, the centenary of the day Bell discovered the |

|principle that made the invention of the telephone possible. This extraordinarily rich collection totals about 130,000 items and documents|

|in great detail Bell's entire career, ranging from his work on the telephone to his interest in aeronautics and physics. |

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The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

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(Series: Subject File, Folder: The Deaf, Visible Speech, Nature and Uses, 1872-1880, undated)

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|A New Language: Visible Speech |

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|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|Professor A. Melville Bell's invention of Visible Speech Chart |

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|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.1) |

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|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|4 small cards: boot, bird, horse car and elephant |

|Manuscript Division |

|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.2) |

|Dr. Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell, devised a system of "visible speech" in April 1864. These alphabetical |

|symbols were intended to be used to teach deaf individuals how to use his or her vocal chords in order to produce specific sounds, even if|

|the person had never heard sound. |

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|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|Visible Speech Alphabetical Symbols |

|Printed cards and box |

|Card 1 - Card 2 - Card 3 |

|Manuscript Division |

|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (1 |

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|A New Language: Visible Speech |

|[pic] |

|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|Professor A. Melville Bell's invention of Visible Speech Chart |

|Manuscript Division |

|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.1) |

|[pic] |

|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|4 small cards: boot, bird, horse car and elephant |

|Manuscript Division |

|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (123A.2) |

|Dr. Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell, devised a system of "visible speech" in April 1864. These alphabetical |

|symbols were intended to be used to teach deaf individuals how to use his or her vocal chords in order to produce specific sounds, even if|

|the person had never heard sound. |

|[pic] |

|Alexander Melville |

|Bell (1819-1905) |

|Visible Speech Alphabetical Symbols |

|Printed cards and box |

|Card 1 - Card 2 - Card 3 |

|Manuscript Division |

|Gift of the Bell Family, 1947 (1 |

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