Description - Sounds Out of Silence: A Life of Alexander Graham Bell by James A. Mackay
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was the son of Melville Bell, inventor of Visible Speech which revoltionized phonetics and linguistics. He was inspired by his deaf mother to try and communicate with deaf-mutes and teach them to speak. While exploring the mechanism of speech, sound and hearing, he discovered the principles of the telephone, arguably the most important invention of all time, without which the gramophone, radio, television, Internet and videophone could not have been possible. The telephone made him fabulously wealthy, but he went on to invent the iron lung, pioneeered aircraft, improved the breeding of sheep and co-founded the National Geographic Society. This biography follows Bell from his upbringing in Edinburgh to his studies and teachings in London and Europe and thence to riches and fame in the United States and Canada.
Buy Sounds Out of Silence: A Life of Alexander Graham Bell by James A. Mackay from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Checking availability...