Alexander Graham Bell: References & Edit History
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Robert V. Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (1973), is the best general account of Bell and his work. Thomas B. Costain, The Chord of Steel (1960), is limited mainly to the invention of the telephone. Works that fit Bell into the business and technology milieu of his times are David Hochfelder, The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 (2012); Richard R. John, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010); and Rosario Joseph Tosiello, The Birth and Early Years of the Bell Telephone System, 1876–1880 (1971, reissued 1979). The most-detailed published account of Bell’s telephonic work is his own last deposition (1892), published in 1908 by American Bell Telephone, The Bell Telephone: The Deposition of Alexander Graham Bell, in the Suit Brought by the United States to Annul the Bell Patents, in which the original patents of 1876 and 1877 are printed in full.
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 30, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the Telephone. | Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Alexander Graham Bell's war on sign language. | Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| Quote from a 1909 speech by Bell added. | May 19, 2025 | ||
| Article revised. | May 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - They Made Our World - Alexander Graham Bell. | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Library of Scotland - Alexander Graham Bell. | Feb 15, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - Alexander Graham Bell. | Dec 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Museums Scotland - Did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone? | Oct 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engeneering and Technology History Wiki - Alexander Graham Bell. | Sep 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The MY HERO Project - Alexander Graham Bell. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Alexander Graham Bell. | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Added “Evolution of the Phone” infogram. | Nov 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Alexander and Mabel Bell Legacy Foundation - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Sep 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Canada's Walk of Fame - Alexander Graham Bell. | Jun 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame - Alexander Graham Bell. | May 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Libraray of Congress - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Franklin Institute - Case Files: Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 21, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: American National Biography - Alexander Graham Bell. | Jul 26, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Alexander Graham Bell. | Aug 08, 2021 | ||
| Added material about Bell's involvement with the National Geographic Society. | Jan 28, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 10, 2020 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Sep 24, 2019 | ||
| Changed "one of the most-valuable patents" to "one of the most valuable patents." | Nov 30, 2018 | ||
| Changed "an electrical bullet probe" to "an electrical bullet probe, an early version of the metal detector." | Feb 08, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Alexander Graham Bell. | Feb 17, 2017 | ||
| Changed "His mother was deaf" to "His mother was almost deaf." |
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Apr 06, 2016 | |
| Picture of Bell demonstrating the telephone, audio of Watson describing the invention of the telephone, and animation of the Graphophone added. | Jul 31, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Feb 03, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Electric Scotland - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Education Scotland - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Undiscovered Scotland - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Oct 25, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Aug 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Aug 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Alexander Graham Bell. | Aug 19, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Aug 19, 2013 | ||
| Added a description of the first one-way "long-distance" telephone call. |
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Mar 06, 2013 | |
| Article thoroughly revised. | Nov 06, 2012 | ||
| Bibliography thoroughly revised. | Nov 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Sep 12, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell. | Sep 12, 2011 | ||
| Added photograph. | Mar 18, 2011 | ||
| Removed extra comma from birth information. | Feb 24, 2010 | ||
| Added photograph. | Mar 11, 2009 | ||
| Added information about Bell's contemporaries, Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray. | Feb 24, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Nov 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Apr 20, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers. | Nov 15, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Library of Congress - Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers. | Oct 11, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Jun 29, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - Biography of Alexander Graham Bell. | Jun 29, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone. | Jun 02, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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