Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell, c. 1914–1919.

Bell photo protrait, from the Smithsonian's Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology collection, undated.

Alexander Graham Bell, half-length portrait, Library of Congress, C. 1850-1860.

Same as previous image (note: small file size)

Alexander Graham Bell (B&W portrait).

Alexander Graham Bell (colorized portrait).

Alexander Graham Bell (colorized portrait).

Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, 1882.

Alexander Graham Bell sketch in profile, from The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago, 1914.

Alexander Graham Bell portrait, approx age 28, small thumbnail image, no other data on file.

Alexander Graham Bell with his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and their children Elsie May Bell (far left) and Marian Hubbard Bell, c. 1885.

Dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, including members of his family plus committee members. Family members include: Alexander Graham Bell (middle back row), and in the front row (l to r) Mabel H. Grosvenor (AGB's grand-daughter), Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell (Mabel), and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor (Elsie - Dr. & Mrs. Bell's oldest daughter). (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

Daughter "Daisy" Bell trying to resuscitate a drowned lamb, with Bell at far right, c. 1882 (n.b.: that year would make her about age 6, so either the name mentioned or the year appear incorrect -ed)

Bell Speaking into Telephone, 1876.

Alexander Graham Bell with his family and friends at the lodge, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, 1890

Bell's duaghter, Marian Hubbard "Daisy" Bell, three-quarter length portrait, at eight years of age, standing, facing left, with dog.

The Brohead-Bell-Morton Mansion of Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts building, was purchased by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law in 1882, who gave the home to his daughter (Mabel) and Alexander. Photo from June 2008.

Bell's daughter Elsie May and Gilbert H. Grosvenor, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front holding their son, Melville Bell, 1902.

Bell's daughters Marian Hubbard "Daisy" Bell and Elsie May Bell with governess, 1885.

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1927), son-in-law, husband to Alexander's daughter Elsie May, and president of the National Geographic Society

Gardiner Greene Hubbard, lawyer, business man, father-in-law to Alexander, father of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard.

Bell's parents, Alexander Melville Bell with his wife, Eliza Grace Symonds and their children, Melville James, Alexander Graham (approx. age 5) and Edward Charles, 1852.

Alexander Melville Bell, father to Alexander Graham. From: The Canadian Album (1891).

Alexander Graham Bell with teachers and students of the Scott Circle School for deaf children, posed outdoors in Washington, D.C., 1883.

Bell at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf, (Boston School for the Deaf), with Rev. Dexter (small jpeg file).

Dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, including members of his family plus committee members. Family members include: Alexander Graham Bell (middle back row), and in the front row (l to r) Mabel H. Grosvenor (AGB's grand-daughter), Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell (Mabel), and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor (Elsie - Dr. & Mrs. Bell's oldest daughter). (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

View of the dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, erected to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in the summer of 1874. (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

Bell on the telephone in New York (calling Chicago) in 1892. Image also appears on cover of Bruce's biography of Bell.

Bell Speaking into Telephone, 1876.

Page from Alexander Graham Bell's notebook, March 9,1876.

Bell on the telephone in New York (calling Chicago) in 1892. Image also appears on cover of Bruce's biography of Bell.

Comparison of the illustration of the telephone in Alexander Graham Bell's diaries and Elisha Gray's patent application, March 1876..

Diagram of the Photophone. From [1]. The image is taken from Alexander Graham Bell's 1880 paper.

Alexander Graham Bell's photophone -technical drawing by Bell, 1888.

Bell HD-4 Hydrofoil

Davenport Car Manufactory Building, 710 Main St., Cambridge, MA. Plaque notes it was part of 1st two-way 'long distance' conversation, 9 Oct. 1876, with Thomas Watson at this place & A.G. Bell at 60 Kilby Street, Boston. Photo taken 2008.

Washington Post story reprinting Zenas Fisk Wilber's sworn affidavit about who really invented the telephone, May 22, 1886, pg. 1.

A woodcut illustration of an early wax cylinder phonograph, or gramophone. This machine was called the 'G' model, created by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester A. Bell, and Sumner Tainter, 1897.

Similar to previous image, users turns the cylinder by pumping the treadle, and speaks into the mouthpiece. Recording played back by replacing the mouthpiece with earphones lying on the desk. Extra wax cylinders seen on the desk, 1897.

Aviation pioneer John Alexander Douglas McCurdy at the controls of the AEA Silver Dart, c. July-Aug 1911.

Crop from previous image, c. July-Aug 1911.

AEA Silver Dart, designed under Bell's tutelage, c. 1909.

A standard desk phone c. 1950s, with rotary dial, made by Western Electric for Bell Telephone/AT&T. Photo of July 2008.

Model of Bell 'Gallows' phone of 1877 (sic), Système Bell collection historique France Télécom, musée des télécommunications de Pleumeur-Bodou. Image of 2006.

W48 Bakelite Telephone

1896 Swedish Telephone

Illustrations of Visible Speech

Bell Telephone Memorial Erected To Commemorate the Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell In Brantford, Ontario, in 1874.

Dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, including members of his family plus committee members. Family members include: Alexander Graham Bell (middle back row), and in the front row (l to r) Mabel H. Grosvenor (AGB's grand-daughter), Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell (Mabel), and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor (Elsie - Dr. & Mrs. Bell's oldest daughter). (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

A.G. Bell in front of the Bell Telephone Memorial, erected to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in the summer of 1874. (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

View of the dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, erected to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in the summer of 1874. (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

View of the dedication of the Bell Telephone Memorial, erected to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, in the summer of 1874. (Courtesy: Bell Homestead Society)

Bell Telephone Memorial Erected To Commemorate the Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell In Brantford, Ontario, in 1874. (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Bell Telephone Memorial Erected To Commemorate the Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell In Brantford, Ontario, in 1874. (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Memorial Erected To Commemorate the Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, In Brantford, Ontario, in 1874 -close up view. (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

The Alexander Graham Bell statue in the front portico of the Brantford, Ontario, Bell Telephone of Canada Building, reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Bell Statue in the front portico of the Bell Telephone Building in Brantford, Ontario, The Telephone City, where he conceived of and invented his famous telecommunications device.(Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

One of the earliest tributes to Bell was being made an Honourary Chief of the Mohawk Nation, by Chief George H. M. Johnson (Deyonhehgon), seated centre (c. 1870).

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First page of the Presidential Decree of 10 November 1881, awarding Bell the Legion of Honour (of France), along with his inspirer, physicist Herman von Helmholtz (on Pg. 1), and his competitor Thomas Edison

Page 3 of the Presidential Decree of 10 November 1881, awarding Bell the Legion of Honour. Bell is recipient #2170 at the very top.

Page 4 of the Presidential Decree of 10 November 1881, competitor Thomas Edison is recipient #1291 (sic) at the very bottom.

Page 5, signatures for the Presidential Decree.

Plaque on the Bell Telephone Memorial commemorating the Invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, In Brantford, Ontario, in 1874.

Historical plaque marker on the side of the Franklin School at 13th & K Streets NW in Washington, D.C., marks one of the sites used with Bell's famous invention, the photophone, precursor to fibre-optical telecommunications.

Plaque commemorating the first two-way long distance telephone conversation (see above).

Alexander Graham Bell's "star" on Canada's Walk of Fame, dedicated in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. Image taken April 2009.

The theme of the Seventh International Sand Sculpture Festival in July 2009 was "discoveries". Alexander Graham Bell is shown holding an early long distance phone conversation.

The new Bell Canada logo as of 2008.

Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, an architectural heirloom designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen. An advanced research lab owned successively by Bell Telephone, AT&T, Lucent, and Alcatel. Photo of 2008.

Volta Bureau in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., a National Historic Landmark. The building is also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, The Bell Carriage House, Bell Laboratory, and the Volta Laboratory. Image from 2008.

The Bell Edison Telephone Building at 17 & 19 Newhall Street, a 1896 Victorian terracotta structure in Birmingham, England, now offices for architects, May 2006.

Formerly named Alexander Graham Bell Hall (until July 2008) extends forward from the tall Ellingson Hall's right side, at the "Rochester Institute of Technology" campus. Bell's name and plaque were removed in 2008. Image from June 2006.

Wider view of previous photo, June 2006.

Telephone Building entrance, Fourteenth Street, Denver, Colorado, built in 1929, headquarters of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company (now Qwest) until 1984.

Toll lines and 'telephone plants' of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, 1897.

Utility access cover labelled Bell System in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Image taken 2008.

The Michigan Bell Telephone Exchange Building in Detroit, Michigan. Photo of June 2008.

The Bell Telephone Building, Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Édifice de la compagnie de Téléphone Bell, Côte du Beaver Hall, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (1931)

The Bell Telephone of Canada Building of Brantford, Ontario. (Courtesy: Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford, Ontario, Canada)

Mother and Child image taken by A.G. Bell in Ceylon, published in National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 31, 1917.