Bell

Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, March 3, 1847; son of Alexander Melville Bell. He was educated at Edinburgh and in Germany, and settled in Canada in 1870. In 1872 he came to the United States and introduced for the education of deaf mutes the system of visible. speech contrived by his father. He became Profe or of Vocal Physiology in Boston University, and at the Philadelphia Exhibition, in 1876, exhibited his telephone, designed and partly constructed some years before. He was also the inventor of the photophone in 1880, of the graphophone in 1887, and of kindred instruments. | Bell, Alexander Melville, a Scotch elocutionist, born at Edinburgh in 1819. He is inventor of the 5 of visible speech, in which all the po ible articulations of the human voice have corresponding characters designed to represent the respective positions of the vocal organs. This system has been succe fully employed in teaching the deaf and dumb to speak. Besides writing on this subject he has written on elocution, stenography, etc.