Reluctant Genius (64 page)

organization and name, 160, 165, 201, 203

patents, 192, 195-201, 233, 398, 433

and photophone, 212, 213

reach of, 399

versus Western Union, 184, 189, 192, 193,
195-98

Bell Telephone News,
400-401

Biddulph, Lady, 181

Biddulph, Sir Thomas, 180, 181, 182

Billings, John Shaw, 258

biography, 423

birds, 322

Bishop, Mr., 349, 350

Blaine, James C, 207

Blaine, Mrs., 207

Blake, Clarence, 71-73

Blake, Edward, 186

Blatchford, Carrie, 68

Blatchford, Mary, 68, 102, 107, 109
and Alec Bell, 101, 103-4, i°9, i43~44,
192, 195

in Nova Scotia, 295, 296, 315, 384

Blue Hill
370

boat-building, 406

boilers, 311-12

bolometer, 322

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 215

Borglum, Gutzon, 351-52

Boston, 33-34, 40-42, 44, 50, 160

Boston Advertiser,
159

Boston Globe,
158

Boston Herald,
133, 218-19

Bostonians, The
(James), 102

Boston Journal,
36

Boston Post,
153

Boston Public Library, 41, 322

Boston School for Deaf Mutes, 32, 35-36

Boston Transcript,
44, 129

Boston University, 45-46, 76, 150

Bow Park, 24

box kites, 326

Bradley (investor), 194

Braidwood, Thomas, 37

Brantford, Ont., 23-24, 31

Brantford Courier,
24, 31

Brantford Expositor,
148

Bras d'Or,
431

Bras d'Or Lake, 237, 294, 408

Brazil, 134

Brazil, emperor of.
See
Pedro II, emperor of
Brazil

Brewer, William H., 258

bridge construction, 353

Bridgman, Laura, 58, 267, 268, 270, 276-77

Britain

deaf education in, 37

patents, 121, 160, 172-73, 180, 182

telegraph rates, 76

telephone in, 121, 169, 172-73, 180,
182-83, 186-87

British Association for the Advancement of
Science, 170

British Bell Telephone Company, 169, 172-
73, 180, 182, 183, 184, 187

Brooks, John, 428

Brower, Judge, 199

Brown, George, 24, 121, 148

Bruce, Robert V, 195, 254, 366

Buchanan, James, 28

Buffalo and Brantford Railway, 24

Burns, Robert, 10, 126, 315

Burton, Richard, 10

butter, 245

“butterstamp” telephone, 154

C

Caledonia coal mines, 237, 239

call-bell system, 183, 207

Calvin, Margaret, 131

Cambridge Gas Light Company, 53

Cameron, Mrs., 171

Canada, 19-20, 21-22, 344

telephone in, 161, 165, 215, 238-39

Canadian Club, 391

Canby, Margaret, 272

Cape Breton, 236, 237-38, 297

Cape Breton Island Reporter,
238

carbon transmitter, 193

Caribbean, 418

Carlyle, Thomas, 216

cars, 310, 353

Cass, Lewis, 27

cats, 227

landing on feet, 342

census, 273, 346

century, turn of, 344

Century
magazine, 336

Chancellor, Olive, 102

Chanute, Octave, 324, 365

Charles Williams Company, 82-83, 160, 165

Chicago, 152, 276, 278

childbirth, 173

China, 392-93

Choate, Joseph, 345

chorea, 300-302

circuits, 207

Civil War, 56, 63, 79

Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes, 32, 37, 48,
62-63, 66, 268

Clemens, Sam, 161, 236, 254, 272, 392

Cleveland, Grover, 200

Clifton House, 163

clocks, 252

Cluss, Adolph, 206

coal mines, 237, 239

Cockshutt, Ignatius, 24

Colossal Arm of Independence, 132

Columbia Institution for the Instruction of
the Deaf and Dumb, 38-39, 40, 268-69,
282-83

communications, predictions regarding,
124-25, 157, 211-12, 309

composting, 386-87

Congress, 27, 282-84, 397

Connaught, Prince Arthur, Duke of, 181

Constantinople, 332

contraceptives, 264-65

Convention of American Instructors of the
Deaf(CAID), 285-87

Cope, Edward Drinker, 258

Corliss steam engine, 132-33

Cosmos Club, 331

Covesea, Scotland, 171-72, 417

cows, 245

"crazy man," 154

Crescent Grove, 245, 246, 294

Crouch, Tom D., 327 Crystal Palace, 180

Curtiss, Glenn H., 366, 367-68, 369, 371,
372, 375-76, 379, 410-11, 430

Curtiss, Rutha, 368

Cygnet,
369-71, 391

Cygnet II,
394

D

Daily Expositor
(Brantford), 24

Daily Mail,
417

Daniels, Josephus, 405

Darwin, Charles, 227

da Vinci, Leonardo, 311

deaf communication

alphabet glove, 46-47

debate over, 281-88

manual alphabets, 8, 46-47, 270

deaf education

"Combined Method," 281

debate over, 37-38, 61-63, 268-69, 276,
281-88

in Europe, 37, 61, 64

oral method, 32, 37, 38

Visible Speech in, 35-37, 38-40

Volta Review,
346

"deaf-mutes," 34-35

deafness

causes of, 51

and heredity, 229, 273-74, 297

proportion of population with, 51

terminology, 34-35, 273

Defence Research Board, 431

Democratic Convention, 27

demonstrations, scientific, 155-56
See also under
Bell, Alexander Graham: as
inventor and scientist

depression, 15

desalination, 346, 416

Dewey, John, 397

diabetes, 414

Dickens, Charles, 5, 58, 267

Diesel, Rudolf, 310

discussion club, women's, 299-300

disease, miasma theory of, 229-30

distress signal, underwater, 204

dogs, 215, 248

talking, 16

Dolbear, Amos E., 184, 196, 197, 198

Dominion Telegraph Company, 148

Dom Pedro.
See
Pedro II, emperor of Brazil
double-hand manual alphabet, 8

Drawbaugh, Daniel, 198, 199

Dufferin, Earl of, 165

Dunlop, Maud, 243

E

ear, human, 71-73, 74

Eccleston, Marie, 17, 19, 111, 393

Edinburgh, 2-3, 6, 11, 19, 170, 416-17

Edinburgh University, 346

Edison, Mary, 256

Edison, Thomas

and Alec Bell, 346, 422, 429-30

in Boston, 43

in Canada, 42-43

character, 84, 134

as entrepreneur, 256-57

family, 256

multiple telegraph, 42, 43, 71, 77, 80, 94,
121, 129

patents, 121, 184-85, 197, 228, 256, 430

phonograph, 228, 430

public demonstrations, 133

and
Science,
257

telephone, 173, 183, 193, 195-96

and Western Union, 129, 195-96

workshop system, 348

education.
See
deaf education; Montessori
education

Eiffel Tower, 318

electricity, 26, 88, 310

Elgin, Scotland, 170

Ellis, Wallis, 148

Ellis, William, 308, 311-12, 339

Emma (maid), 175, 177, 178, 179

Encyclopaedia Britannica,
203, 309, 420

engagements, 152

engines, 132-33, 310, 366, 367

English Visible Speech for the Million
(M.
Bell), 18

ethanol, 416

Ether Monument, 41

eugenics, 229

Evans, Harold, 256

Evening Telegram
(St. Johns), 240, 241

Experimental Researches in Electricity
(Faraday), 43

F

Fairchild, Alexander Graham Bell, 382,
422-23

Fairchild, Barbara, 382

Fairchild, David Grandison, 259, 352-53, 365,
374, 375, 382, 387, 390, 411, 419, 420

Fairchild, Nancy Bell, 382, 418

Faraday, Michael, 43, 88, 216

feminism, 151-52

fiber-optics, 431

fire, 248-49, 252

First World War, 402, 405-7, 408-9

Fletcher, Roberta, 395, 396

Flint, MI, 37, 285-87

Flyer,
364-66

flying machines

development, 311-12, 319-20, 430, 431

first flight over 1 km, 373-76

ideas for, 85, 171, 310-11

for war, 338

See also
airplanes; kites

Foraker, Joseph Benson, 329

Foraker, Julia B., 329-30

Forbes, William H., 212

Ford, Henry, 310

Forlanini, Enrico, 393-94

Fox, Kate, 155

Fox, Leah, 155

Fox, Maggie, 155

France, 183, 318, 394, 428

Freer, Charles Lang, 350-51

Frost, Jack, 359

Frost King,
359

"Frost King, The" (Keller), 272-73

fuel, 323

Fuller, Buckminster, 363, 431

Fuller, Sarah, 32, 36

G

G. H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company, 366

Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 38-39, 62, 268-69,
275, 281-88

Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, 38, 268, 281

Gallaudet College, 287.
See also
Columbia

Institution for the Instruction of the

Deaf and Dumb

Galton, Sir Francis, 229

Garfield, James A., 217-21, 229, 309

Garland, Augustus, 200

Garrison, William Lloyd, 41

genealogy, 231, 273

genetics, 229, 297

Genoa, 348-50

geodesic dome, 363, 431