Alexander Graham Bell
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is a name of great significance in American
history today. A skillful inventor and generous philanthropist, he astounded
the world with his intuitive ideas that proved to be both innovative and
extremely practical in the latter half of the 19th century. Most notable, of
course, are Bell's work i ....
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assisting the deaf and following other creative ideas including the development
of a metal detector, an electric probe which was used by many surgeons before
the X ray was invented, a device having the same purpose as today's iron lung,
and also a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his
many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied
telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of
the American Association to ....
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