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On August 1 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, one of the world's greatest inventors, died at the age of seventy-five years. The effects of early upbringing and environment always leave their mark on a man's life, and in Graham Bell's case they are specially apparent. His father spent the first half of his life as a lecturer on elocution at Edinburgh, and was also a prolific author of books on the same subject. Among his son's earliest experiments were the recording of speech waves on smoked cylinders. Graham Bell was a student at Edinburgh University, and later he assisted his father when the latter was a lecturer at University College, London. In 1870, for reasons connected with Graham's health, the family migrated to Brantford, near Tutela Heights, Ontario. In 1873 Graham was appointed professor of physiology at Boston University. In 1874 he invented a system of harmonic multiple telegraphy, and in that year he began a series of experiments which led him at last to realise in practice his conception of an articulating telephone.
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R., A. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Nature 110, 225 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110225a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110225a0