Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone [SCM]
by Edwin S. Grosvenor Author, Morgan Wesson Author
A fully-illustrated book about the early years of the telephone, at the center of which is Bell himself. Co-authored by Bell's great-grandson, this book reveals the inventor as a man of warmth and human frailty, loved by his wife and children. Wonderful photographs and first-hand sources. Covers the vast variety of Bell's inventions.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0810940051
- Print Status
- Out of Print
- Chapters
- 13
- Pages
- 304
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Scotland, England, Ontario, Massachusetts, Washington DC,
- Historical Setting
- 1847 - 1922
- Publisher
- Harry N Abrams
- Copyright
- 1997
Chapters
- 1 Birth of an Inventor
- 2 I May Succeed
- 3 Mr. Bell, Do You Understand What I Say?
- 4 One Good Invention
- 5 The Highest Incentive a Man Can Have
- 6 The Bell Monopoly
- 7 It Will All Be Up With Us
- 8 The Rise of the Independents
- 9 The World and All That's In It
- 10 To Get Into the Air
- 11 From Coast to Coast
- 12 Life With Grandfather
- 13 What the World Calls Failures
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