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THIS interesting book consists of a series of lectures by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, whose name in the future may be as honourably associated with his labours in the education of deaf mutes as with the invention of the telephone. His father, A. Melville Bell, many years ago, devised a method of representing, or rather symbolising, positions of the vocal organs. To this symbolic method he gave the name of “visible speech,” because anyone acquainted with the symbols could place his vocal organs in the desired positions, and then, on emitting the breath and bringing the vocal cords into action, could produce the desired sound.
Lectures upon the Mechanism, of Speech.
By Alexander Graham Bell. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the First Summer Meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Pp. 129. (New York and London: Funk and Wagnall's Company, 1906.) Price 1.00 dollar net.
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MCKENDRICK, J. Lectures upon the Mechanism, of Speech . Nature 75, 196 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075196a0
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