Reluctant Genius (65 page)

George, Anne, 395

Germany, 37, 183, 213

Gibbs-Smith, Charles, 324

Gilded Age, 254-56

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 301

Gilman, Daniel, 275

Girdner, John H., 221

Glace Bay, NS, 239

Glasgow, 167, 168

glass, blue, 157

glass tubes, 333

gliders, 324, 326, 364, 371-73, 39!-92

Globe
(Toronto), 148-49

glove, alphabet, 46-47

Gnome Company, 394

"God Save the Queen," 209

Godwin, Edward, 208

Gould, Jay, 257

Graham, Alexander, 6

Grand Trunk Line, 42-43

Grant, Ulysses S., 132

graphophone, 228, 353, 430.
See also
phonograph (sound-recording device)

Gray, Elisha

and Alec Bell, 138-39

multiple telegraph, 71, 80, 88, 94, 121

patents, 121, 184-85, 196-97, 198, 200

public demonstrations, 133

telephone, 121-22, 159-60

Great Eastern,
28

"Great Imagination, the," 303

greenhouse effect, 416

Greenock, 167

Grey, Earl, 383

Grossman, Gypsy, 232

Grossman, Maurice, 213-14, 232-33

Grosvenor, Alexander Graham Bell, 382

Grosvenor, Carol, 382

Grosvenor, Edwin, 332

Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus, 331, 332

Grosvenor, Gertrude, 382

Grosvenor, Gilbert, 332, 337, 338, 343, 345,
360-61, 382, 419, 423, 425

Grosvenor, Gloria, 382

Grosvenor, Lillian, 382

Grosvenor, Mabel, 382, 385, 416, 428, 431

Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 381, 382, 386, 394

Guiteau, Charles, 217, 222, 230

gulls, 85, 171, 321

H

Hale, Eugene, 299

Hale, Mrs., 299

Halifax Chronicle,
314

Halifax explosion, 408-9

Hamilton, ON, 161

Hamlet,
129, 148

Hammondsport, NY, 366, 371

Hanoverian,
239-43

Harding, Warren G., 421

Hargrave, Lawrence, 324, 326

Harrison, Benjamin, 252

Hartford Courant,
161

Hartford School for Deaf Mutes, 38-39, 284

Harvard University, 41, 97-98, 99, 346

Hayes, Rutherford B., 205

HD-1,
404

HD-2,
404

HD-3,
404-5, 405

HD-4,
408, 409-13

headaches, 12, 15, 18, 20, 44, 114, 155, 208,
223, 251, 252, 261, 414

heater, candle-powered, 406

helicopter-like devices, 311-12, 319, 323

“Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven,” 428

“hello girls,” 428

Helmholtz, Hermann von, 21, 29, 43

Henderson, Thomas, 18-19, 149

Henry, Joseph, 87-88, 138

heredity, 229, 273.
See also under
deafness

Hill, Alice, 352

Hitz, John, 273

Home, Mary, 175, 176, 178, 180, 186, 188

“Home Notes,” 389-90, 415

Hornblower, Joseph, 258

Hornblower and Marshall, 252

houseboats, 302-3, 321, 405

house fire, 248-49, 252

Howard, L. O., 259, 407

Howe, Julia Ward, 58

Howe, Samuel Gridley, 58, 61, 267

“Hoy! Hoy!”, 157, 209, 250, 386, 400

Hubbard, Charles Eustace, 165

Hubbard, Gardiner

art collection, 334

background and character, 52-53

in Bell Telephone Company, 160, 165, 187,
189, 193, 194, 213

coal mines, 237

daughters' marriages, 100-101, 103, 106,
118, 129, 161, 205, 213-14, 260

and deaf education, 48, 58, 61-63, 66, 282,
334

death, 334

as father, 52, 55

finances, 77

house fire, 249

multiple telegraph, 77-79, 79-80, 86, 94,
100-101, 117, 121

National Geographic Society, 331

and patents, 78-79, 121, 152-53, 185, 411

Philadelphia Exhibition, 133

Science,
257-58

Smithsonian Institution, 334

telegraph, 68, 76-77

telephone, 120-21, 130, 154, 159, 160

travels, 187, 302, 318

at Wednesday-evening get-togethers, 275

versus Western Union, 76-77

Hubbard, Gertrude McCurdy

and Alec Bells work, 80, 95-98, 155-56

appearance, 126

background and character, 52, 53

daughters' marriages, 103, 104, 105-6, 112,
119, 129, 144, 161-62, 214

death, 383

as mother, 55-58, 62

sight, 260

travels, 65, 183, 302, 318, 345

in Washington, 206-7

Hubbard, Gertrude ("Sister"), 54, 57, 65, 183,
209, 213, 226, 232

Hubbard, Grace, 54, 57, 58, 89-90, 126, 215,
252, 260, 302, 383, 425

Hubbard, James, 136

Hubbard, Mabel.
See
Bell, Mabel Hubbard

Hubbard, Marian, 58, 60

Hubbard, Roberta, 54, 57, 58, 89-90, 101,
126, 214, 226, 232

Hubbard, William, 129, 136-38

Hubbard bill, 76

Hyatt, Alpheus, 258-59

“hydrodromes,” 392, 404, 413, 429, 433

hydrofoils, 392, 393~94, 403~5, 406, 407-8,
409-13, 418, 423, 431

I

induction balance, 228

Industrial Revolution, 10, 25-28

insomnia, 15, 223, 414

International Telephone Company, 213, 215

iron lung, 223.
See also
vacuum jacket

Irving, Sir Henry, 208

Italy, 348-50

J

James, Henry, 99, 102

James, William, 99, 277, 278

Japan, emperor of, 328

Johnson, Ed, 256

Johnson, George, 31, 36, 147, 148, 164

Johnson, William, 225-26

Johnston, Joseph E., 200

Jonah,
404

June Bug,
374-76

K

Keller, Arthur H., 266, 267, 269, 270-71

Keller, Helen, 266-68, 269, 270-73, 274-79,
280, 282, 288-90, 355, 413-14, 422

Keller, Kate, 267-68

Kelly, Charles, 208

Kelvin, Lord.
See
Thomson, Sir William

kites, 326, 338-40, 354-55, 357-6o, 366-67,
369-71, 376, 392, 394, 431

Kitty Hawk, NC, 364-65

Kruuesi, John, 256

L

LaCour, Paul, 121

Ladies' Club Board, 300

Lake Keuka, 371, 373

Langley, Samuel Pierpoint, 275, 321-23, 324-
27, 331, 338, 339, 346, 349, 354, 364, 365

language, transcription of, 10.
See also
Visible

Speech

Lash, Jack, 413

League of Nations, 415

Lee, Robert E., 56

L’Epée, Abbé de, 38, 281

Liberator, The,
41

lifeboats, 406

Life of Stalin
(Trotsky), 427

light, sensitivity to, 114, 315, 414

lightning, 27

light waves, 204

Lilienthal, Otto, 324, 326, 364

Lincoln, Abraham, 56

lip-reading, 32, 37, 38, 57, 268-69

Lister, Joseph, 230

Livingstone, David, 10

Lobrichon, Timoléon Marie, 223

Locke, Abby, 67, 69, 90, 136

Lodge, The, 294-95, 305, 382

See also
Beinn Bhreagh

London, 174, 176, 344

London Society of Arts and Manufactures, 172

long-distance telephone, 399-401

Longfellow, Annie, 69

Longfellow, Edith, 69

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 99, 236, 237,
422

Lusitania,
407

M

Mabel of Beinn Bhreagh,
302-3, 321

Macbeth,
150

Mackenzie, Alexander, 165

Mackenzie, Catherine, 388-89, 390, 415,
416, 419

MacNeil, John, 388

Macpherson family, 242

Maid of the Mist,
163

Manly, Charles, 354

manual alphabets, 8, 46-47, 270

Marconi, Guglielmo, 199, 310

Marthas Vineyard, 297

Mary (maid), 382

Massachusetts Board of Education, 32, 33, 41

Massachusetts General Hospital, 41

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
41, 43, 129

Massachusetts legislature, 60, 61-62

Massachusetts State Board of Health, 229

mathematics, 254, 328

Mauro, Cameron, Lewis and Kerkham, 199

Maxim, Hiram, 324, 326

McClure, S. S., 395

McClure's Magazine,
336, 395

McCormick, Cyrus, 198

McCurdy, Arthur, 238-39, 244, 294, 304, 305,
323, 333, 361, 372

as Alec s assistant, 308, 334, 348, 354, 359

McCurdy, Augusta, 90, 126

McCurdy, Caroline, 126

McCurdy, Douglas, 361, 367, 369, 373, 376,
377-79, 391,411

McCurdy, Lena, 126, 144

McCurdy, Robert, 54, 55, 77, 127

McCurdy, Susie, 359

McDermid, John, 377-78, 387, 415

McDermid, Neil, 359

McDonald, Alexander, 313

McDonald, Donald, 333-34

McKinley, William, 330

McNeil, Hector R, 354

"Memoir upon the Formation of a Deaf

Variety of the Human Race" (A. Bell),
229, 286

Mendel, Gregor, 297

Mendenhall, Thomas, 258

Menlo Park, 256, 348

metal detector, 218-21, 309

miasma theory of disease, 229-30

Midstream
(Keller), 276, 288

Miss Miggs (cow), 245

Mitchell, S. Weir, 301, 302, 307

Monaco, prince of, 405

monkeys, 226, 227

Monte Carlo, 393-94

Montessori, Maria, 395, 396-97

Montessori education, 394-97

Montessori Educational Association, 396

Montgolfier brothers, 311

Montreal, 22

Morgan, J. P., 257

Morse, Edward, 258

Morse, Lucrese, 27

Morse, Samuel F. B., 26, 27, 91, 198

Morse code, 26