Reluctant Genius (66 page)

Morton, Levi P., 252

Motor Boat,
409-10

motorcycles, 368

motors, 327, 394, 408

Mount Pleasant, ON, 148

Mount Rushmore, 352

mourning, 161-62

movies, 397-98, 428

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," 122-23, 400

multiple telegraph

development, 70-73, 75, 77-80, 83-88,
90-91, 121, 129

patents, 86-87, 121, 433

principles of, 83-84

public demonstrations, 133

quadruple, 129

Munn, Charles, 373

Murray, James, 16-17

Myers, Mr., 374

"My Story" (Keller), 271

N

Nantucket, 95, 107, 108

National Academy of Sciences, 229, 231

National Bell Telephone Company, 201-2

See also
Bell Telephone Company

National Geographic Magazine,
336-37, 338,
340, 353, 363, 382

National Geographic Society, 287, 331-32,
336-37, 346, 353, 394, 419

Nation’s Business,
344

Nature,
212

Nature, La,
158

Nellie (nursemaid), 237, 240, 249

Newcomb, Simon, 258, 275, 341-42

New England Journal of Medicine, The,
41

Newfoundland, 4, 239-42

New York City, 344

New York City Auto Show, 366-67

New York Daily Graphic,
158

New York Herald,
159, 344

New York Sun,
354

New York Times,
160, 212, 229, 326, 327, 379,
390, 397, 415, 422, 424

New York Tribune,
28, 133

New Zealand, 392

Niagara Falls, 163

Nightingale, Florence, 229

Norton, Charles Eliot, 99, 236

O

oatmeal, 251, 415

obituaries, 422, 424

Oionos,
355

one-handed manual alphabet, 270

Ontario Institute for the Blind, 148

On
the Sensations of Tone
(Helmholtz), 21,
29, 43

oralism, 38, 268.
See also
deaf education

orthopter, 374

Orton, William, 76-77, 88, 94, 129, 184

Osborne House, 180-82

Ottawa, 391-92

Ottoway, Carrie, 17.
See also
Bell, Carrie
Ottoway

Oxford English Dictionary,
16

Oxford University, 346

ozokerite, 309

P

Pan-Electric Telephone Company, 200-201,
233, 248, 252

paranormal events, 155

Paris, France, 318, 394

Paris, ON, 18-19, 149-51

Paris Peace Conference, 415-16

party lines, 399, 428

patent disputes, 159-60, 184, 189, 192, 195-
201, 233.
See also under
telephone

Patent Office, 86, 121-2, 189, 194, 200

patents, 78-79, 433-34

ailerons, 374

airplanes, 411, 434

graphophone, 353, 434

hydrofoils, 410-11, 434

multiple telegraph, 86, 121, 433

phonograph, 353, 434

tetrahedral cell construction, 353-54, 434

See also under
telephone

Paxton, Joseph, 180

Pedro II, emperor of Brazil, 132, 134, 137,
138

People s Telephone Company, 199

Perkins Institution for the Blind, 58, 268, 269,
272-73

Perrin (coachman), 227

Philadelphia, 130

Philadelphia Exhibition, 130-39, 150-51, 153

Philadelphia Times,
133

Philological Society, 16

Philosophical Society, 213

phonetics, 8-9.
See also
Visible Speech

phonograph (record-player), 430

phonograph (sound-recording device), 204,
223, 228, 309, 353

photography, 11-12, 308-9, 323, 325, 354

photophone, 204-5, 209-10, 211-13, 216,
254

photosphere, 418

phrenology, 230

Pickford, Mary, 398

plagiarism, 272-73

Polk, James K., 27

Pollock, Anthony, 207

pony, 386

pony express, 27

Poole, Robert M., 332

pope, 65

Portugal Cove South, NL, 241

post office, 186

Potts, Mary, 131

Powell, John Wesley, 258

Preece, William, 178-79

Progress in Flying Machines
(Chanute), 365

pronunciation, 397

propellers, 311, 323, 327, 388

Providence Press,
159

Providence Star,
158, 159

“Psalm of Life” (Longfellow), 275, 422

punctuation, 389-90

Pygmalion
(Shaw), 5

Q

quadruple telegraph, 129

Quebec City, 188

Queen s University, 346

R

radio, 199, 310, 418

railroads, 10, 24, 255

receivers, 183

Red Head, 244, 246, 247.
See also
Beinn
Bhreagh

Red Wing,
372

Reis, Philipp, 71, 200

Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust), 428

Reynolds, William H., 160, 169, 172, 173,
181, 182, 183

Rich, Isaac, 45

Richardson, Henry Hobson, 206

Rochester, NY, 276, 345

rockets, gunpowder, 323

Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 333

Rogers, Harriet B., 32, 63, 64, 65

Rogers, James W., 200

Royal High School, 10-11, 24, 417

Royal Institution, 215

Runyon, Damon, 399

Russia, 427

S

safety, 373

Salt Lake City, UT, 152

Sanders, George, 44, 46-48, 70

Sanders, Mrs., 46, 102-3, 157

Sanders, Thomas, 78, 79-80, 160, 165, 189,
193,194

San Francisco Examiner,
400

Schawlow, Arthur, 430

School of Oratory, 45-46, 76

schoolteachers, men as, 40

sciatica, 223

Science,
257-58, 259, 306, 325

Scientific American,
153, 373-74, 376, 392

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

Scots, in Canada, 22, 24, 237-38, 296, 297

Scott, Sir George Gilbert, 169

Scott, Robert R, 397

Scott, Sir Walter, 10, 31, 126, 172, 416 , 418

scrapbook, 159

Scudder, Simon, 259

seagulls, 85, 171, 321

Sears, Mrs., 249

seawater, 346, 416

Selfridge, Thomas E., 366, 369-71, 372,
376-77

semaphore, 27

septicemia, 173

servants, 174-75, 187

sewing school, 299

Shakespeare, William, 129, 148, 150

Shaw, George Bernard, 5

sheep, 245, 294, 297-98, 304, 305, 307, 333,
394, 415, 418, 423

Sheepville, 298, 302, 307

Sheila (dog), 248

Shipley, Harriet, 355

shipwreck, 239-43

Shulman, Seth, 368

Siasconset, MA, 107, 108

sign language, 38, 39, 62, 268, 281.
See also
deaf education, debate over

Silver Dart,
376, 391

Six Nations Reserve, 30-31, 36

skyscrapers, 310

Smith, Chauncey, 195, 197

Smithson, James, 349-50

Smithsonian Institution, 252, 322, 334, 346,
348-51

Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts among
Boys, 11

Society of Arts, 129, 216

Society of Telegraph Engineers, 179

solar heating, 386

Songer, Miss, 61

songs, telephone in, 428

sound

in Alec Bells childhood, 2-3, 9, 19

electrical transmission of, 73

sound-recording device.
See
phonograph
sound waves, 73

soup,333

speaking machine, 1-2, 74

speaking telegraph, 133

spectrophone, 213

Spelterini, Maria, 163

spitting, 259

Squibnocket, MA, 273, 297

St. John s, NL, 242, 243

St. Vitus' Dance, 300-302

Stalin, Joseph, 427

Standard Elocutionist, The
(M. Bell), 8, 31

Statue of Liberty, 132

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 422

Stewart, William Morris, 206

Story of My Life, The
(Keller), 267, 277

Strachey, Lytton, 423

streetcars, electric, 310

Strong, George Templeton, 28

subscription forms, 337

Sullivan, Annie Mansfield, 267-72, 276, 278

Sullivan (police chief), 344

switchboard operators, 428

switchboards, 204, 257, 323

Sydenham chorea, 300-302

Symonds, Edward, 147, 148

Symonds, Eliza Grace.
See
Bell, Eliza

Symonds, Mary, 2, 7, 8

sympathetic vibration, 73-74

T

Tainter, Sumner, 204, 209, 218, 219, 220,
229, 430

“telefon,” 71

telegraph, 26, 27, 28, 76, 186, 198, 427

harmonic, 29, 83

multiple, 29, 42, 43, 70-73, 83-88, 90-91, 94

quadruplex, 71

Telegraph House, 238, 243, 294

telegraph lines, 26, 27-28, 184, 193

telephone

Alec Bell without, 252

in art and letters, 161, 428

assemble-it-yourself, 182

attitudes toward, 129, 154, 159, 182-83, 186

“butterstamp,” 154

conception, 73-75, 85, 87-88

development, 91-94, 122-24, 147-50, 153,
183, 254

impact, 425-28

improvements, 193, 195-96, 207

long-distance, 399-401

patent disputes, 184, 189, 195-98, 198-201,
248, 252

patents, 121-22, 152-53, !53-54, i59~6o,
165, 172-73, 180, 182, 183, 184-85, 398,
433

predictions for, 157

principles of, 92

production, 160

proliferation, 154, 160-61, 165, 182, 192-
93, 255, 398-99, 428

public demonstrations, 129-30, 133, 137-38,
148-50, 157-60, 169, 172, 180, 184