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YMCA Building
284-296 Essex Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Citation: Henry Theriault Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts
Author's presentation copy of "Lectures upon the mechanism of speech" published in 1906, with inscription and autograph on the front flyleaf.
(sp Coll q809)
Title: Folding Chair
From: Wheelchair Advertisements
Original caption: A Folding Chair
This chair was developed by George G. Salmon, Jr., a former patient at Warm Springs.
Weight -- 25 pounds.
Widths -- 23" and 26" over all (23") width for persons under 115 pounds and (26") width for persons over 115 pounds.
Wheels -- 20" in diameter (all wheels ball-bearing).
Caster -- In the rear, 4".
(Wheels can be removed in one minute if the chair has to be carried a distance)
Price -- $27.50
Write for particulars to
George G. Salmon
417 Valley Street
South Orange, N.J.
Creator: n/a
Date: December 1933
Format: Advertisement
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Coweta County, Georgia: A Pictorial History, Volume II. Submitted by Helen Knight Myers of Newnan.
This is a photograph of a Southern Bell work crew about to install the dial system in the summer of 1957. The dial system was only a sparkle in Alexander Graham Bell's eye when he and his brother created the first "talking machine" in 1862. In 1876, the first two-way conversation was had, and this was just the beginning of an invention that most of the world could not live without today. After this, telephones were installed in many places, however, when wanting to make a phone call, one had to speak to an operator first. In the mid 1900s, a break-through invention, the rotary dial system, was introduced to the world. This type of system allowed every phone, every house, or every store to have a different number and could be called directly without having to speak with an operator. Grant it, this put many people out of jobs, but it opened some of the largest telephone companies that are still in operation today. In this photo, the second man from the left is my grandfather's cousin, and he worked with Southern Bell through all of these improvements in the system. He retired from Southern Bell after 40 years or so and died a few years later.
Grosvenor, Edwin S. and Wesson, Morgan. Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1997: 12-13
To read more about the rotary dial please visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial
Clearly the telephone is a very important invention, and some of us that truly despise texting actually still make use of it!
Bell was a pioneer in Tetrahedron kite making . He was known for flying these "odd" kites in Baddeck. The book (which I picked up a copy of upther) "Genius at Work" has a prologue by none other that R.Buckminster Fuller , both agreed tetrahedrons are a part of nature/ natural order .
Built in the tetrahedron base element shape (you will note the triangular element throughout the design of the museum as well) A.G. Bell was fond of . through the trees one can see the "modest cabin" they built for 22 thousand about a mile away on the edge of the lake. Not the intended "cottage" to escape the bustle of the American cities (DC area)but to a place that strongly resembled his Scottish homeland for that sum mentioned they built a palatial estate, and laboratory
where he conducted many experiments. The family heirs own it and generally is closed to the public with the exception for special event functions.
A black and white photographic lantern slide. The image shows a man sat at a desk, conducting a telephone call. There are a large group of men behind him.
At the bottom of the slide is printed ELECTRICAL REVIEW N.Y./ 'PROFESSOR BELL TALKING TO CHICAGO AT THE OPENING OF THE NEW YORK CHICAGO TELEPHONE LINE, OCTOBER 18, 1892'
Date: c.1892
Finding number: 2012-0133
The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion (also known as the Levi P. Morton House) located at 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 1879 to the designs of architect John Fraser, (renovated in 1912 by architect John Russell Pope) the Beaux-Arts style building originally served as the private residence of John. T. and Jessie Willis Brodhead. Since 1939, the building has served as offices for the National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association (now known as the National Paint and Coatings Association). Former occupants include Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton, the Embassy of Russia, and U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites.
The desk of Alexander Graham Bell showing some of his early notes and parts from his earliest telephone.
ISO 100 1/60 sec F3.5 Hand held.
In the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The Lothian Buses single decker is in the heart of Edinburgh making its complicated way from Lothian Road to Queensferry Street via Charlotte Square that is necessitated by traffic management measures. How many people, I wonder, pass the building behind the bus while on their phone, without realising that 16 South Charlotte Street, was the birthplace (on 3rd March 1847) of Alexander ( Graham) Bell, inventor of the telephone? A stone inscription on the wall marks the entrance to the building.
They (the Canadian government) built a museum to house the collection of Bell's genius and that of his associates , they built a special wing to house the HD4 a prototype hydrofoil . The engines are two 350 HP Liberty airplane engines it's well over 50 some feet long and was the fastest boat on the planet for 12 years.
Cool place , Bell was certainly a genius!
Photo Description: An advertisement for the McCormick Folding Chair. It is a narrow chair with two large wheels in front, two very small guide wheels in back with a cloth seat and back.
The advertisement says, "The McCormick Folding Chair is smart in any company. It has divorced that "hospital" appearance. Trim in silver gray and black, in (typo in original advertisement) combines in rare fashion the qualities of good looks, lightness and compactness. The Aluminum Chair, Manufactured by R.F. McCormick 1509 Parker Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
Title: Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing and Oath, 03/07/1876
Production Date: March 7, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing and Oath, 03/07/1876 (ARC ID 302052); Patented Case Files, 1836 - 1956; Records of the Patent and Trademark Office; Record Group 241; National Archives.
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=302052
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Recording in wax on binder’s board, probably 1885. Content: in two segments with a gap in between; first segment is a male voice reading a story. At 51.8 seconds the voice suddenly changes to a high pitched “child imitation.” In the second segment a man is reading from a description of a New Hampshire factory.
This panel depicts Alexander Graham Bell and Professor Joseph Henry. Henry is seated in an armchair on the right side of the panel. He is shown in proper left profile and sits at a desk. Bell stands in front of the desk, facing Henry. In his proper right hand he holds a scroll of paper. He leans on the desk with his proper left hand. Hanging on the wall behind the two men is a painting of a full-length winged figure standing on a globe. The men are working on Bell's idea of the telephone.
additional views - 110 South Street in Morristown, New Jersey Google Map
Transrail / BR Brush Mirrlees Blackstone Type 5 ( Class 60 ) ( W/n:BT1002/1992 ) Co-Co 60 061 ( Previously 'Alexander Graham Bell' ) languishes in the 'North Headshunt' at Toton on 05 September 2012
THE 1943 "FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS CAMPAIGN" www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615898/pdf/jnma0067... (Journal of the National Medical Association)
Latest bit of N gauge weathering from me - Graham Farish 60061 Alexander Graham Bell, which is a Buffers limited edition. Fitted with the supplied etched nameplates and bufferbeam detailing, and DCC chipped after much faffing about!
Glass disc recording, produced photographically on March 11, 1885. Content: male voice saying names, recording date, then reciting “Mary had a little lamb.”
In the early 1900's Bell an associates had designed and hydrofoils which were precursors to today's , this set of foils is from the HD4 which in the teens did a whopping 70 m.p.h. on the lake in Baddeck.
holding on to the thought that an opportunity will present it's self.
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell
Title: Man In A Wheelchair With Large Wooden Wheels
Creator: n/a
Date: Circa 1890
Format: Photograph
Source: Robert Bogdan Collection
History: It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention, and this was certainly true in the case of the American census. Following the population trends established by previous surveys, it was estimated that the census of 1890 would be required to handle data from more than 62 million Americans.
Herman Hollerith, a man with a learning disability, designed a system that processed information so that human beings would not have to. He used punched cards to develop the first computer to process information. This device was constructed to allow the 1890 census to be tabulated. This construction meant a great improvement as hand tabulation was projected to take more than a decade. Twenty-eight years after Hollerith [1896] founded the Tabulating Machine Company it becomes known as International Business Machines (IBM).
Right outside the front door (south entrance) of the 1966 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Building is a stone marker with the words, “The First Telephone,” and what is supposed to be a picture of the device. In closer inspection of the marker, atop it is a plaque which describes how on June 2, 1875 on this site, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas A. Watson transmitted sound over a wire for the first time. It was an accidental brush by Watson across a reed on the device which produced the resulting sound wave which transmitted across a wire into the unexpected ears of Bell. It took an additional nine more months before the art was enhanced enough so as to transmit voice. Then on March 10, 1876, Bell transmitted the first words over wire when he spoke to Watson (whom was in the room next door) saying, “Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.”
For more history regarding this site, including how you can visit this locale via one of our MP3 audio walking tours, check out our site here: iwalkedaudiotours.com/2011/08/iwalked-boston%E2%80%99s-fi...
Class 60's, 60070 & 60061 coupled up and ready to go at Carlisle on the Carlisle - Newcastle leg of the "Tyne Line" railtour on Saturday 29th March 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart
Bell Homestead; Brantford, Ontario.