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CollectionAlexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress The collection contains over 145,000 items. The online version contains 4,695 items (equaling about 51,500 images), consists of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939,...
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Graham - Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard - Fairchild, Marian - Hubbard, Gardiner G. (Gardiner Greene)
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ArticleAlexander Graham Bell Alexander Bell (1790-1865) married (1) Elizabeth Colville (died 1856), divorced 1831, had 1 daughter and 3 sons: Jane Bell (1815-1817) David Charles Bell (1817-1903?) Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) married (1) Eliza Grace Symonds (1809-1897) and had 3 sons: Melville James Bell (1845-1870) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) married Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857-1923) Elsie May Bell (1878-1964) married Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966), had 2 daughters and...
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ArticleAlexander Melville Bell Alexander Bell (1790-1865) married (1) Elizabeth Colville (died 1856), divorced 1831, had 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys: Jane Bell (1815-1817) David Charles Bell (1817-1903?) Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) married (1) Eliza Grace Symonds (1809-1897), had 3 children, 3 boys: had Melville James Bell (1845-1870) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) married Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857-1923), had 4 children Elsie May Bell (1878-1964) married Gilbert...
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ArticleDavid Charles Bell David Charles Bell, uncle of Alexander Graham Bell (1817-1903?) married Ellen Adine Highlandied Together they had 10 children, 5 boys and 5 girls:
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ArticleElsie May Bell Grosvenor Elsie May Bell (1878-1964) married Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966), had 7 children, 5 daughters and 2 sons: Melville Bell Grosvenor (1901-1982) Gertrude Hubbard Grosvenor (1903-1986) Mabel Harlakenden Grosvenor (1905- ) Lilian Waters Grosvenor (1907-1985) Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor (1909-1915) Elsie Alexandra Carolyn Grosvenor (1911- ) Gloria Victoria Grosvenor (1918-1972)
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ArticleMelville James Bell Melville James Bell (1845-1870) married Caroline Ottoway and had 1 son: Edward Charles Ottoway Bell (1868-1870)
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ArticleInventor and Scientist In 1876, at the age of 29, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company, and in the same year married Mabel Hubbard and embarked on a yearlong honeymoon in Europe.
- Date: 1876
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ArticleTelephone and Multiple Telegraph The telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph.
- Date: 1874
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Article1847 to 1868 March 3, 1847 Alexander Bell is born to Alexander Melville and Eliza Symonds Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the second of three sons; his siblings are Melville (b. 1845) and Edward (b. 1848).
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Article1890 to 1899 Aug-Sept, 1890 Bell and his supporters form the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
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Article1900 to 1922 October 1900 Elsie Bell marries Gilbert Grosvenor, the National Geographic Magazine editor.
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, November 29, 1909
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Graham - Bell, Mabel Hubbard
- Date: 1909-11-29
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Alexander Melville Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, March 15, 1876
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1876-03-15
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell, March 18, 1876
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1876-03-18
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Alexander Melville Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, March 22, 1876
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Alexander Graham
- Date: 1876-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Symonds Bell, April 12, 1876
- Contributor: Bell, Alexander Melville - Bell, Alexander Graham - Bell, Eliza Symonds
- Date: 1876-04-12
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