BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM

(1847-1922), American scientist and inventor; s. of Alexander Melville and Eliza G. Bell. Educated in Edinburgh and at London University. Given honorary degrees of Ph.D. by Warzburg College in 1882; M.D. by Heidelberg in © 1886; LL.D. by Harvard in 1896; and same by Amherst, St. Andrew’s Edinburgh and George Washington. Went | to Canada from Scotland in 1870 and to Boston in 1871. In this year became profe or of vocal physiology in Boston University. Invented telephone, the patent of which was dated March 17, 1876. Other inventions include the, photo-phone induction balance and telephone probe for painle detection of foreign matter in the human body. For this was given the above hono degree of M.D. by Heidelberg. ith Sumner Tainter and C. A. Bell, invented and perfected the graphophone in 1888. He also made many improvements in tetrahedral kites and in aerial locomotion for the Aerial E ent A ociation, from 1903 to 1908. In 1887 he founded and endowed the Volta Bureau for increase of knowledge relating to the deaf. Founder and _ exp resident American A ociation to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Fellow or member of many of the scientific societies of America, Great Britain and Europe. Was awarded the Volta Prize medal by France, Royal Albert Medal by Great Britain, Elliott Cre on Medal, John Fritz Medal, Hughes Medal, Edison Medal, Medal of Royal Society of Art, Officer French Legion of Honor. These and other numerous tokens of scientific attainment attested the world’s appreciation of the eat boon to mankind that Alexander rah am Bell had made when he invented and perfected the telephone. In 1904 he had brought to Washington the remains of James Smiths on, the founder of America’s great seat of scientific research, the Smithsonian Institution.