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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Phonograph, Photophone, Free-space optical communication, National Geographic Society, Phonograph cylinder, Aileron, Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes, Antonio Meucci, Volta Laboratory and Bureau, Bell System, Glenn Curtiss, Canadian Parliamentary Motion on Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Bell Telephone Company, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, Thomas Etholen Selfridge, Bras d'Or Lake, Walter Seymour Allward, AEA Silver Dart, Charles Sumner Tainter, Pioneers, a Volunteer Network, Graphophone, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, HMCS Bras d'Or, Alexander Melville Bell, Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf, Dictaphone, Dictation machine, Visible Speech, Aerial Experiment Association, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Frederick Walker Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Anthony Pollok, The Telephone Cases, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, The Telephone Gambit, National Telephone Company, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, AEA Cygnet, Graham Bell Island, Bell Telephone Memorial, Life Extension Institute, Marcellus Bailey, Chichester Bell, Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial, Charles Williams Jr. House, Melville Bell Grosvenor, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Graham Bell School, Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, Bell House, Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, Ltd., Oriental Telephone Company. Excerpt: Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly...