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Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site; Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Alexander Graham Bell (AGB) Building, Kings Buildings, University of Edinburgh
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Thanks to Walter for the photo and the tour of Brantford and Paris, ON. www.railpast.com www.youtube.com/user/railpast
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The brick building has interesting history: Location on Osborn St. between Main St. and Albany St......
From this site on October 9, 1876 the first two-way long distance telephone conversation was carried on for three hours. From here in Cambridgeport Thomas G. Watson spoke over a telegraph wire to Alexander Graham Bell at the office of the Walworth Mfg. Co. 69 Kilby Street, Boston Mass.
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Disc recording in green wax on brass holder, probably 1885. Content: male voice reciting opening lines of “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet
Portrait of the Bell family and friends on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, 1922.
Photograph by Charles Martin, National Geographic
Electrotyped copper negative disc of a sound recording, deposited at SI in October 1881 in sealed tin box. Content: Tone; male voice saying: “One, two, three, four, five, six”; two more tones.
(Photo Description: A class of 41 children and staff sit on the steps of the Boston School for the Deaf. All are dressed in the style of the day, boys with suits and girls with long dresses. Bell is seen with a dark suit and tie.)
Alexander Graham Bell, was a scientist, inventor, and founder of the Bell Telephone Company, who was known as the father of the telephone.
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Canada Aviation and Space Museum; Ottawa, Ontario.
Electrotyped copper negative disc of a sound recording, deposited at SI in October 1881 in sealed tin box. Content: Tone; male voice saying: “One, two, three, four, five, six”; two more tones.
It is not commonly known Renoir battled severe rheumatoid arthritis and fought the disease so he could continue creating his masterpieces. Though at times the arthritis crippling, he continued to persevere through his work.
Renoir was born in 1841 and died in 1919. The last three decades of his life allowed Renoir to be recognized, triumphant, and financially successful with his art, but it also met with the fate of serious illness.
Crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis
Around 1898, if not before, Renoir experienced his first severe attack of rheumatoid arthritis. It forced him to spend the winter months in the south of France, in Provence, and to seek medical treatment in the summer months. During the next several years, he experienced bouts of illness and bouts of improved health. It was not long though before the rheumatoid arthritis became excruciatingly painful and gave him more trouble. His joints became deformed and his skin dried up.
In 1904, Renoir weighed only 105 pounds and was barely able to sit. By 1910 he could not even walk using crutches and became a prisoner in his wheelchair. His hands were completely deformed, like claws of a bird. A gauze bandage was used to prevent his fingernails from growing into the flesh. Renoir was unable to pick up a paintbrush at this point and it had to be wedged between his fingers. He continued to paint everyday unless an attack of arthritis forced him to lie on his bed where a wire construction protected his body from being touched by his bedclothes.
A recently found photo of Renior painting in later life with his arthritic hand wrapped in cloth. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he used a wheelchair. He developed progressive arthritis in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique. In the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers.
One of my favorite Renoir paintings is the Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Alexander Graham Bell Lab artifacts. formerly Inside the lobby of the Verizon Building fronting the south side of Post Office Square. The lab was removed from 109 Court Street. ( see below, new location ) The Alexander Graham Bell Boston lab is long gone, but Verizon has them on display. There is also an impressive 360 degree mural depicting communications history in the lobby, though photography is forbidden in the lobby, they have a free color reproduction for those interested. Bell was very inventive but many folks think the phone was the invention of Elisha Gray, or Antonio Meucci but you knew that.
You better visit soon, the souless scum known as Verizon, the former telephone company, are leaving the building.
This collection is now located @
JFK Buildings at City Hall Plaza
(Opposite 1 Center Plaza)
1 Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108
(Photo Description: Patty Duke kneels beside the cane whicker chair that Helen Keller is sitting in and Helen is pressing her three fingers against Patty Duke's lips. Ms. Keller is smiling and has white hair.)
The telephone, and other Bell innovations like the microphone, reportedly was developed in part to assist people with hearing loss. Bell taught students who were deaf and at schools for the deaf (a school in London, Boston School for the Deaf, the Clarke School for the Deaf, and at the American Asylum for the Deaf). He also opened a school for deaf and hearing students together, but the school had to be closed after just two years.
In 1880, Bell won the Volta Prize from France for his invention of the telephone, and utilized the winnings to set up the Volta Bureau, a library holding information on deafness. Ten years later, in 1890, Bell set up the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, with the objective of promoting oral communication (which later morphed into the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing).
Bell befriended Helen Keller. Another major accomplishment was to conduct the first national census of the deaf, in 1890.
On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.
The size of the "ship" was daunting so were it's two engines to turn it's propellers.
(350 Horse Power Liberty Aircraft engines).
On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.
Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 1907 – 13 January 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operas. She was the first soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by riding her horse into the flames as Wagner had intended. She contracted polio in 1941. Her autobiography was filmed in 1955 as Interrupted Melody, with Eleanor Parker acting the role and Eileen Farrell singing for her. Lawrence later served on the faculty of the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During a performance in 1941 in Mexico, Lawrence found herself unable to stand—she had polio. She undertook the Sister Kenny treatment of muscle stimulation for paralysis in both legs. She returned to the stage 18 months later, performing in a chair, reclining or on a special platform; although hampered by her lack of mobility she continued to perform until 1952. In 1944, during World War II, she performed in charity concerts to entertain troops in Australia, seated in a chair. A performance as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Paris in 1946 was well received as were concert appearances of Richard Strauss's Elektra in December 1947 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Artur Rodzinski, but Lawrence left the stage, and instead began to work as a teacher. She retired to her ranch, Harmony Hills, in Hot Springs, Arkansas where she taught international students until her death in 1979.
Yes, that is a kite. Based on a design by Alexander Graham Bell, this tetrahedral shape really does fly and quite well. The man did much more than just come up with the telephone. With this project, we collected 24 straws, bit of string, and some paper to create our version.
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Don't have much to say today. I'm feeling like this weekend, even though it was a long one, was not enough time to recoup. Guess I'll be going to bed early again today. Have a good day.
~Stephanie
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Take a Class with Dave & Dave: "telecommunications. A huge part of our life these days, and surely there's a need for some great stock around this topic. Phone it in!"
When I was growing up, we had a "party line" telephone. We had to share our phone with three other families. Can you imagine that now?
On Monday January 26th, 2015, approximately 25 history buffs and social media users gathered at the National Museum of American History for the #HearHistory Tweetup. They went on a tour of the exhibition, "Hear My Voice: Alexander Graham Bell and the Origins of Recorded Sound," with the team that made the historic sounds in the recordings available to modern ears: curator Carlene Stephens, Library of Congress digital conservation specialist Peter Alyea, and Lawrence Berkely National Lab scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell.